May 2010

There are 13 more days of school after today.  I have 13 more days and I will be unemployed for the first time since 1975.  In 1975 I quite working in April so I could finish that semester of college.  Had Ryan in Sept. Went back to school in January of 1976, and graduated from Oklahoma State University the last Friday in July and began working the first Monday in August.  I have had a job non-stop since August of 1976.  It is really going to feel strange when August rolls around this year and I don't have to go back to school.  I think that I am going to enjoy retirement, but I am going to miss my job, my kids, my fellow teachers and just being part of the system.  I have been doing this for 34 years.  That is over half of my life and when you think about it, I have been doing something in the education field for about 50 of my 56 years.  Now that is a long time to either be a student or a teacher.  WOW!!!

Yesterday all my kiddos were here at my house.  We had pictures made down in the park.  The kids and the adults really did well.  Andrea got some really good pictures, but she always does, even if we have cranky subjects.  LOL  I love having pictures made of everyone but myself.  I guess everyone is pretty much that way.  I have three of the most photogenic grandkids in the world, and I am not prejudice either.  I will post just a few of the pictures that she took.

I hope to write more often when I retire.  Since JJ has stayed with us during the week to go to school here in Anadarko, I haven't written as often as I should.  I should have been writing down the things he did and said, but I have been pretty tired when I get home, so I have let a few things slide.  We have loved him being here with us and the house is going to seem very quiet when he goes back to his mom in three weeks or so.  He has had a good year and I know he made some friends here in Darko that he will keep forever. He has loved every minute of the day with Mrs. Glidewell and Miss Karen.  They are the greatest.  Next year he has been accepted into Nichols Hills Elementary in Oklahoma City.  It is supposed to be the best elementary school in the district.  I hope it is and hope he loves it there as much as he has here.  It is hard to explain that he will not be going to Sunset Elementary here next year to him..  They have toured the school and told the students that this will be your school next year.  He is starting to figure it out and he has a friend that goes to the school where he will be next year.

Well, that is all for now, I better quit and get busy.  I will see if I can get a few pics to load now.