The Plan of a Lifetime

 

 Eleven years ago we retired from our jobs in California and sold our beautiful two-story home in Brea. I loved that home, I loved California, and I loved my job, but knowing if we were to sell our house and move out of California, which we did at exactly the perfect time, as far as the housing market, we will have pulled off a very smart economical move.

Since then many wonderful things have happened. I’ve published two books of poetry, I've been not only to Ireland many times since we moved, but we’ve traveled all over Europe;  Pairs, Brussels, Spain,  Vienna, Budapest and Prague. Italy, France and Croatia.

 I’ve gotten to know and fall in love with not only my Mother’s Irish heritage but have been to Croatia now, where my Dad’s family are from. We were even able to find Mrkopalj the small mountain village where my paternal grandparents actually lived as young people before coming to the U.S.

I’m so very grateful for the blessings that have come my way and that we’ve been able to take part in them.

Since we’ve moved to Henderson, our son got married, and has had three sons of his own. Imagine that,  I have three Grandsons! I’m thinking I’ll always have a date for wherever I want to go.

 This year I’m going to pass on my annual trip to Ireland, and spend more time in California.  I want to be there to take the boys to school and pick them up. I want to take them to the beach on their days off, help them with their spelling words and watch them play ball. I’ve promised myself also, that I will have a good first draft of my book about Ireland done and I’ll write a lot more poetry.

There is no doubt in my mind that there are many lifetimes that await us. My plan is to enjoy each and every one of them as long as I can.