Poor Retirement Planning

If I’ve learned anything from having adult children, it’s this; relationships are hard. They’re worth it but it takes work to make it work. I think I’m ready to retire.

Lucky Numbers

We’re on our way to visit 4 day old grandbaby #11 in Oklahoma. Grand babies #3, #4 &; #8 also live in Oklahoma so we’ll be able to spend some much needed time with them as well. Happily, 15 month old grandbaby #10 lives on the way. We stopped to have dinner with him and his wonderful parents and decided to spend the night before heading out early tomorrow. #10 will have a brother or sister this summer when grandbaby #12 arrives and we couldn’t be happier. We’ve decided to stop for a quick visit with grand babies #1 &; #2 on our way back to Florida. We haven’t seen them in several years and they are sorely missed. Grand babies #5, #6, #7 &; #9 live next door to us in Florida. How blessed are we!

My days are numbered and I couldn’t be happier.

Alexa To The Rescue

I'm looking around the house at all the new electronic gadgetry we were gifted for Christmas. These are things we would have never purchased for ourselves but now that we have them, its quite fun. One of the items we received is an Amazon Echo Show. Her name is actually Alexa and you can ask her just about anything and she'll help you. I have only asked her to play Neil Young songs so far and she has happily obliged. Bob, on the other hand, asks her all kinds of questions and never forgets to thank her as well. 


I fear we have officially become old people. Anyway, if you're interested in checking this handy dandy device out, you can see her right here:

Amazon Echo Show

It's actually a pretty cool gadget. And while you're over at Amazon, check out the Amazon Smile Foundation. Customers choose their favorite charity and Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of eligible items to your charitable organization. It costs nothing to participate. How neat is that! I signed up for one of my favorite charities, 

Haven of Hope Dog Rescue

Every little bit helps, right?

Jennie June & Max, two of our rescues

La Vita Bella

I am a fast walker. I have no idea how this happened since I  have tree stumps for legs. Anyway, as I'm watching a travel documentary on Italy last night, I noticed something. Italians do not walk fast. Ever. They stroll. I mean everywhere. This might seem like no big deal and its probably not to you other slow walkers out there. But to a fast walker like me, it was significant. I'm going to Italy this summer. Seeing how Italians literally stroll through life, I realized I would end up plowing people down if I didn't slow down when I get there. This caused me great anxiety today. No, seriously.

 I kept thinking, "How am I going to remember to slow down when I get there? I look like I'm running compared to Italians. This is going to be embarrassing." 

That's when it hit me. I don't need to slow down when I get to Italy. I need to slow down now. Life goes by way too fast and I've missed so much because I'm always going full speed ahead. It's time to practice my stroll. 

7 Things Americans Can Learn From Italians

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A stroll around Catania's Food Market, Sicily #food #travel

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! 

Or will it be? 

Only time will tell but I'm counting on it. 

If nothing else, it should bring some interesting stories to tell.

And so, it begins......