First day of retirement I had to keep telling myself - "This is the day the Lord hath made, rejoice and be glad in it. First my administrative assistant, Cheryl found things that I had not taken care of that we needed to take care of. There were some loose ends I had missed. I am really going to miss her.
I am baby-sitting three of my grand children, Kade, Lily, and Grey for the next couple of weeks with Fran in Zimbabwe and Mary Michele, Rylee, and Kyle in South Africa. I don't know if you should pray for me or the grand children. I took them to Urban Air yesterday morning with Gillian. They had a ball and Gillian, our adopted daughter from China took pictures of this American oddity.
Then prepared beds to give to the refugee ministry to make room for two new bunk beds for grandchildren. My grandson, Kade and I then launched forth in putting together a bunk bed for about a two hours of quality time together. I let him read the instructions and study the pictures and he really enjoyed doing it together. During this time Lily was making cup cakes with Gillian in the kitchen and Grey was on his kindle.
Middle of the afternoon I was looking up something on my computer and a virus hit it for the first time ever and I ended up with the blue screen of death. So, my computer was down for about six hours being worked on by an apple technician. Now its clean with extra protection and working beautifully.
Finally, only a half of retirement and I received a call from a church wanting me to start immediately leading their traditional service. I wasn't really ready for that and it did not seem to be a good fit, plus I want a little time before jumping into something new.
So, that was the major events of my first day of retirement ending with baths and bed for three wonderful grandchildren as Nana is busy packing for Zimbabwe. mjm
