Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Where did the last 2 months go?

so....the retirement step is still an issue... can't seem to decide who I am.  I have had a mission(s) my whole life and to suddenly be without is just plain weird. I need to get to a place where I can be happy with just being me. Jean. :-)

I probably should go back to work because I am madly spending money trying to do nothing!  I have taken up making hand made greeting cards and for a person who hardly ever sends one, that is really desperate.  Turns out that I like it. Turning a piece of paper into a meaningful message is quite satisfying.  Some day I will post a couple of pictures...or you can go to Queen B's. They let me put a rack of them in their shop and a couple of people actually bought some. go figure...   :-)

I got the first item checked off my bucket list!  I did! I did! I really did....NOT by myself though.  Brother Robert and sis-in-law Julia worked their butts off for a whole week. I have been wanting to clear out the land between our house and this magnificent oak tree since we built our home in 1980.  For 31 years I have looked at that treetop- you couldn't walk to it because of the under growth. Wow...isn't it just beautiful?  I am still working...turns out the grandsons like earning $$ helping me.
I feel like such a big girl now....I can drive a tractor and have my own chain saw.  Wahoo! just like my mom.  :-)  she is probably thinking 'bout damn time!

Turns out that even though I was a girl scout and a camp fire girl leader I don't know what poisen ivy looks like...or poisen oak....or poisen sumac... I can tell you what it looks like when you break out with it! anyway.... 4 weeks of steroids and drugs and its almost all gone....

hmmm...kitchen might be a safer place after all!

After Christmas Fun ....already?

so.... i am trying to catch up on my blogging...not going so well...
Keegan (age 12) and Aiden (age 8) are watching TV with me in our king-size bed along along with my maltese, Fonzy and his friend Miss T[a shih zu] puppy. We are baby-sitting her today.  Every once in a w hile all four of them seem to find some reason to go under the covers and chase each other...needless to say - I am hanging on to my laptop with a death grip... oh yeah... Kung Fu Panda is blaring on the TV!

Something I wanted to share... I ran in to an old friend a couple weeks ago and we got to chatting.  She has gone through some changes in her life the last couple of years and has successfully reached the 'adjusted well' status.  As I am still in this who the hell am I and where did Jean go stage of my life, she was a real inspiration to me.  Finding her was like grabbing on to a life raft.  I hope that some time I will  be able to help her in return.  any way.... she invited me to her new church's Christmas Eve service.  I have to say that the Christmas Celebration that evening was absolutely the most beautiful and sincere service I have ever been a part of. My sister-in-law went with me and she was just as touched.  Thank you Miss J!