The Nitty Gritty
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The Happening of Our Daily Lives
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The Nitty Gritty
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The Happening of Our Daily Lives
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We love to travel!
Most of our time together has involved travel as a family. We did do a bit before we had children, but the largest part has been with our kids. We've spent a lot of time travelling around our country -- going from coast to coast. It's our intention, now that are kids are all grown, to expand our horizons so to speak. We have a bucket list, which includes Hawaii and Australia. Hopefully, we'll make it to these destinations soon, but in the mean time, we'll get used of travelling solo on shorter, closer-to-home destinations. We have a few in the works, which we will be sharing here, shortly. Stay tuned! Mr & Mrs.
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We've always been a very traditional family. One where Mr. went out to work and I, stayed home. Raising children, homeschooling and operating a small business from home filled my days.
Now however, the kids are mostly gone, Mr. no longer regularly goes out to work and is thus home to ummm.... "help" me. I guess Mr. never gave much thought to the fact I've been preparing meals for a long time. I've had many successes but also failures from which I learned a lot. Needless to say, I could now prepare most of the meals we eat, in my sleep. Enter dinner preparation the other night. As Mr. milled around the house, he was quite concerned about his dinner cooking on the stove. I wish I could have captured him on camera as it was quite amusing. I think he thought I was going to burn it or let it boil over or something...but whatever it was, he was *quite* concerned! I was rather enjoying it, so didn't put a stop to his worry. It was just toooo funny!! ha ha ha. I'm glad to report dinner was not burned, did not boil over or was not ruined in any other form. Mr., as usual, got his dinner and all was well. This illustrates however, this transition is going to take some time. I remember too well, the initial days of being home all day and also found them to be very long. Onward and upward though. We have many, many more mis-adventures to experience but will have many of these minor adjustments along the way. Stay tuned! Hello!
Welcome to the Mis-Adventures of Mr. & Mrs! It's nice to meet you! We are newly, semi-retired (sort of) How's that for a description? lol We're retired from our life-long careers, but still working on other projects which is where the "sort of" and "semi-retired" comes into play. We're almost empty-nesters, but not quite there yet. Because of this and the fact we have bills to pay (plus we're not ready to completely give up work!) we're working at transitioning into the retired lifestyle. This is NOT as easy as it sounds and definitely not as easy as I thought it would be. During our working lives, we had visions of what retirement would look like. Sleeping in late, travelling, going wherever we wanted whenever we wanted to go, eating in restaurants and basically doing whatever it was we wanted. WRONG! There are a lot of hours in a day to fill. There are a lot of adjustments to be made. Transitioning from full days of working, followed by full evenings of driving kids to various activities and then doing things around the house, to having full days and evenings of 'nothing', takes some work. This transition allows for some interesting, often hilarious, times. Who thought transitioning could be soo difficult?! So, pour yourself a cup of your favourite beverage, pull up a chair and journey with us as we transition through this! Thank you for stopping by and visiting! Please take a moment and introduce yourself in the comments section. We're looking forward to getting to know you all! Mr. & Mrs. |
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