Two days

until hubby's retirement is official.
I am going to be falling behind with blogs, sorry. Nothing to be done about that, but I'm sure you all understand.

Still have a lot of shredding to do. It's amazing how you forget how many papers you have after 17 years that you don't need.

Got the outside of the house painted and the shutters put back up. We took them down after Hurricane Bertha tore a couple of them off, back in July of 1996. That was our first bad hurricane after moving here in 1994. We stored them in the shed and just never got them back up. With a fresh coat of paint, they really help the house stand out.

The guy painting the house did a great job. He's been really helpful with little things, too, like repairing the one shutter that had been damaged. I'll try to remember to take a picture and share it with you, if I have time.

Now we just need to get the trailer loaded, get the rest of the stuff tossed or put in storage if it's something we're keeping, and get the inside of the house taken care of.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thursday and a safe, blessed weekend. ♥

Five days

Not that we're counting or stressing or anything...

One week

until hubby's retirement is final.
It's exciting and scary. I know I've said this before, but it's my blog.
We're anxious. I know he wants to leave before the 7th of July, but I just don't see it happening.
For various reasons, we don't have a lot of money and this is going to be an expensive couple of weeks with everything we need to do.

I do have hope, Lord willing, that all will go well.

We have plenty of rice, if nothing else, haha.

I just try to keep my stress levels low and go with the flow. Not much else to do, right?

You all have a blessed weekend!

Starting to feel more definite

The boys have been moving stuff into their apartment all day. Got the electric and water turned on yesterday. Internet gets turned on tomorrow.
It's definitely not the best apartment, but it's good enough for first time on their own, and no worse than the little apartment we had after we were first married.

Not much longer now. The fast moving time has started to slow down. Still half the month to go.

Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday.
Praying for rain in the places that need it most.

Found a little change in the settings that makes me not dislike the new post editor. :o)

We have lived in this house in NC

For almost half of our married life. 17 years. We celebrate 38 years in just under three weeks. 20 days.
What an anniversary present.

Hubby asked if we were going to the farm the first weekend of freedom. I said no, I figured we'd take a week to slowly get everything packed up. Hopefully everything. But maybe not. That is still under debate, haha. We may need a storage unit for a week or two.

And then we'd leave after his last payday. Our anniversary weekend.
Both of us driving a vehicle and pulling a trailer with stuff on it.

Crazy stuff that wakes you up at 3:00 AM.
Hubby woke up, too and neither of us could get back to sleep.

Just wanted to share these:









I've tried and tried to get a slip (branch, cutting, what-have-you) of this:



because my oldest boy gave it to me for Mother's Day many years ago, but the cuttings just don't root. At seven feet this year, I feel it's too large to move, and I wouldn't really want to leave a hole in the yard anyway. I've looked at different things on the internet and it seems they are not easy to propagate by cuttings.

I'm going to miss this bush.

Have a wonderful weekend. ♥