I loved having my home decorated for the Christmas holidays, and this year was one of the best, since it wasn’t so new. I could follow the decisions made in the past two Christmas seasons that I enjoyed in my home before this past Christmas. It made things easier for me.
Once the new year was a week into being real, I began having my Grandson over for Friday evenings until Saturday afternoon/evening three weekends each month. His father used to work on Saturdays with his job, and my grandson got used to spending his Friday nights here. So he (to my great joy) wants to keep coming. This allows Dad to have some time to get fun plans developed for their weekend together.
The weekend between Dad’s weekends are usually Mom’s. However, she works for a tax company and works on Saturdays every tax season (from January to April 15th) for the past few years. She’s not a tax preparer but the office manager, so she’s working with the customers, supplies, and phones. This means that I get to visit him at his Mom’s home one weekend each month, and his other grandparents get him the other weekend each tax month, and I like that.
This year I am feeling my age more and more and I’m grateful that he’s 9 years old and can do most things on his own. It’s the stairs that get me, since I don’t have any at home. I don’t mind the extra exercise, but I end up recovering the next day, for sure.
This year I celebrated 10 years with my job, and my leadership did a number of things to help me celebrate that wonderful milestone. I also got a wonderful review from my manager that really had me feeling “seen”. He noted things as significant in my performance that I hadn’t noted in my part of my annual review. It was touching and just made me feel appreciated. I really enjoy my job, and I’m glad it shows. I keep learning new things, and that’s one of the biggest reasons I enjoy it so much.
One of my milestones this year is my 70th birthday! How odd it seems to me to say that I am getting to that age in so many ways. In other ways, I know there’s no overlooking it. I am sometimes tired enough to take an evening nap after a stressful day of work. I love that I have all white hair, though! Heredity makes me smile about that, as neither of my full sisters got that gene from my mother as I did.
The birthday party will take place in late June, and I’ll include pictures after it if they please me (vanity – I haz it).
So, I haven’t been very active in WordPress lately, and I apologize for that. I have been bad about reading your posts as much as I have been bad about posting. I’m almost recovered, though, and I will do my best to resume my blog time fun!
I am preparing to shift from full time to part time next year, now that “the big software update” has happened. This year we’ll find all of the things that didn’t transition well, and keep our pace with the things that were not involved with that as much as other things my team does. So, when I transition out of the team (or stay with them for part time – we’ll see), it won’t be so jarring for those left to do it all. For now, we’re also rewriting all of the process documents with the new enhancements, so there’s a lot to do aside from the transitional corrections. I like being busy this way – since I work from home it’s always a great environment to get things done.
I’ll be reading your posts more now – promise!
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