Fifty Four and Counting
2019 has been the year of change and currently it is July 2019 and I have turned 54 and my life is different in almost every way than it was a year ago. Although it came in full of promise and hope, 2019 was destined to be a year of challenges and triumphs, fear, failure and success. In February we were told that - SURPRISE - our oldest daughter, who I help with daycare for my three granddaughters, 7, 5 and 4, at least three days a week while she works, was pregnant with my first grandson. Wow! I was angry at the load it was putting on me, thrilled to be getting a grandson, worried about my daughter, who was not physically supposed to carry another child and not financially in a place to have one. Also in February my older son, engaged and moved out with his fiance of six months, broke the engagement and accepted a job in Mississippi. It wasn't pretty and, although mutual, we lost an important person in our life that we expected to be our family member. On February 15th, m