I found it!! I thought it was lost forever. Gone in a puff of cyber smoke or left in a pile of cyber ashes. I was so sad! I had worked hard on it and it was gone ... or so I thought.
What was missing? THIS blog! It crossed my mind again a couple of weeks ago and I went looking for it. However, it has been {ahem} ten years and some change since I last posted, and I couldn't remember anything except "Random Reminiscences."
So very much has happened in these ten years:
- My son graduated from high school, started college, and quit college. He works as a freelance graphic designer.
- I went from working ten hours a week to working 40+ hours a week at my dream job as a public librarian. I retired from that beloved job in 2019.
- We took three separate trips to Nashville so my husband and son could go to the Tennessee Titans games. I shopped.
- My father-in-law turned 80 and we had a surprise party for him. He is very hard to surprise.
- My precious Daddy lost his fight with colon cancer in 2014.
- My brother David lost his fight with heart and liver disease in 2015.
- My beloved Momma lost her fight with brain cancer in 2019.
- My husband's brother David lost his fight with lung cancer in 2021.
- My sweet doggy Lacey crossed the Rainbow Bridge in 2018 at 15 years old.
- COVID-19 happened.
- I attended book festivals four different times.
- My husband and son went to see the Memphis Grizzlies at the FedEx forum a couple of times. I shopped.
- They also went to lots of Ole Miss men's basketball games. LOTS.
- We took a pizza vacation one year. We travelled around the state of Mississippi and hit up the best of the best pizza places.
- We went to Atlanta so the boys could see the Atlanta Braves play baseball. I shopped.
- My husband retired in 2021 after 25+ years with the US Postal Service.
- Many movies have been watched. Much music has been listened to. Massive numbers of books have been read.
- My grandchildren went from 7 years old, 3 years old, and 1 year old to 17, 13, and 11. (Wait ... what?!? How did THAT happen?)
My family has had some good times and some bad. Some amazing times and some heart-breaking times. We've wanted to give up, but we've kept going. We've been lazy sometimes, but we've also accomplished big things.
Most importantly, we are happy and healthy.
I plan to give this blog thing another go. Who knows what it may morph into this time? I think I'll just play it by ear and see what happens.
