9/4/2025 It Was A New/Old Beginning...

Today is a remembrance of an end to a time in my life that held me anchored to a place I had only expected to be a short duration.

My husband & I had bought a second home only to spend time with our daughters and care for our beautiful granddaughter.

The plan was to stay until she went off to Kindergarten.

However, life has a way of teaching us plans have a way of changing when you least expect it.

You see, with the death of my adoring husband I was left with adjusting to life's curve ball.

I found the best course of action was to stay gainfully employed and wait until the time was ripe for selling the second home.

I had envisioned the purchase for remodel and flipping with a eventual planned departure no longer than a short few years.

Five years after my husband's death in 2014, I finally completed the repairs and updates I needed to sell and retire with savings funds/plus a widow's pension. This sale definitely help to make the bank account look nice.

This day in 2019 the second home sold and I walk away free to go to my rural country home and begin life again.

To tell you the truth...

I was excited and fearful all at once.

This really struck home realizing the end of that era was over. I had to walk on through the next part of my life without him.

I am fortunate in life with many things to be "Thankful" for now. However, there is still the heart's hole that will always be there for me. You can't erase your prior life.

You never know how "strong" you are until being "strong" is the only choice you have.

So here I am today dedicated to continue to march forward on my own.

Nana