This is my story about getting botox injections. I knew I needed to get something done about my frown wrinkles when my 8 year old asked, "Mommy, we are you always unhappy?" This blew my mind. "Sweetie, I'm almost always happy when I'm around you! Why do you think I'm not?" Her response: "Because your eye brows are all scrunched up."

The real story behind botox is average, common and even banal. The average woman experiences no moderate or severe side effects from the simple injections, if anything she feels the prick of a needle and the stab of disappointment that she cannot be the youthful looking young woman she once was. Aging is, as we all know, inevitable and aging gracefully is now our goal.

The title pretty much gives away my feelings about botox, but I want to tell you my story anyway.

When I was 18 and wrinkle free (naturally) I was hardly care-free. You see I had a baby on the way and a "husband", let's always put that in quotes because as it turns out he wasn't much of a husband. When my first son was born it was a time of great joy and fear in my life. I had a newborn, an estranged family, a "husband" and we lived in a small town.

I got into botox early, I was getting some collagen injections in 1999 when it was still a fad to get botox, and Jay Leno made fun of us for getting the procedure. Since then I've become a quiet advocate for what I consider to be the most economical and effective procedure on the market today.

I just wanted to add my two-cents about the so-called 'botox craze'. I'm just over 50 and I got my first injections in 2004 to help with some pretty deep (at least in my mind) creases between my eye-brows. And I have to say it worked like a charm.