Here we are at the end of August already, with Fall nipping on our heels. It has been a funny summer this year with not much warmth, to speak of. Hopefully we will end up with an Indian Summer in September.
I am now back working, same kind of work as I was doing last time, but with a new company, and life is good. With this job I am working one-on-one with a client, so am able to put all of my energy into it. It's great to be working this way and I just love my client. It is a very good match and hardly feels like work most of the time. That's a real bonus. It's very hard to find a job like that. But at my age, it's a blessing to be able to wake up in the morning and feel excited about my work day. It is a part-time position and every weekend is a 3 day weekend. I couldn't ask for anything better.
Family life goes along and is good. Holt is still sharing the house with us and this works very well for all of us. It is mutually beneficial all the way around. Heath and his family live close by, which makes it possible to watch my little granddaughter grow and develop. She is the cherry on my sundae!! Such a blessing for me. There is no joy like the joy of watching her run to me with open arms for a hello hug and an eskimo kiss!! The oldest fellow is doing well and is now happily engaged to a lovely gal. They are working on putting their lives together, so we really don't see them much.
We have not been doing much camping this summer. It seems that once we got back from the 752, we were turned off a bit by the whole thing. Then there were weeks of applying for jobs and waiting to here back from them. However, we are planning on doing a camping trip over the Sept. long weekend. Wayne and I both feel it's a lot of work to pack up the 5th wheel and just go away for 2 or 3 days.....lol....we are at the point where we feel if we are going to pack up to camp it should be for at least a month. I guess the trip last winter has put us into that mode. We are planning towards our next time on the open road, which hopefully will come about in 2011. Wayne is anxious to travel to Alaska and if I want to travel, that means that is where I will be going too. A small price to pay as after we go to Alaska we are going to head south for the winter and then up along the Eastern Seaboard in the Spring. There are still a few places that we are anxious to see....just a few....Wayne would like to travel for at least a year and I have no problem with that.
This year we are having all of our kids and their families here for Christmas. Almost like our last "hurray" of family get togethers before we start to travel long term. This should be alot of fun for all of us. We are really looking forward to getting to know our two great-grandchildren for the first time.
