An end....and a beginning!

Yesterday was my last official shift at Food Lion, where I have worked for the last 27 years. The only job I've ever had! I started the day after I turned 16 in 1984. My birthday was on Labor Day that year, so Pop took me to get my license that next day, and I went to work that afternoon. Of course I never expected to be there that long, it just kind of happened! Scott and I met there. We were co-workers for almost a year before he asked me out. I was 17, he was almost 23. No one believed he was older, they thought the goofy boy was my age, not a freshly minted college grad! I stayed at FL through the rest of high school and 2 1/2 years of college. I was studying Graphic Arts at CPCC when we got married in Sept 1988. I wound up quitting college, and going to Full-time in January 1989. I was promoted to Customer Service Manager in 1991, and stayed in that position until yesterday. I worked at 9 different stores in the 27 years there. I've met so many people working in the public arena for so long, and I have made life-long friends there. I know that I am going to miss my Mint Hill customers the most, I was there the longest of any store, almost 13 years. I met Patti Taylor there, who wound up being the one who made the connection from Rebekah to us, leading us to our firstborn son, Silas!

I know that God has a plan in everything, and I knew the time was right to move on. After losing Mom and Pop this year, I knew it was time for me to be home with my boys. Not only am I going to be a Stay-At-Home mom, we are going to Homeschool! I have told everyone that I am just going to dive in, hook, line and sinker! Many people I have told have been very skeptical and are concerned that my boys will not be socialized enough. I promise, they will be JUST FINE! Our family is excited about this new beginning, and I have a gazillion projects I want to get done this summer before we start schooling. I am working on converting our study into our home school room, and I want to purge a lot of unnecessary stuff from the house. Scott says "Can't you just relax and enjoy retirement?".....

I'll keep you posted on that :o)

Happy in the Sad

It's been a tough year...a REALLY tough year. Fortunately, life does go on. There have been some fun times mixed in with the sad times, but they all just seemed so...unbloggable (I think that's a word, but oh well!). I have even found that I did not even reach for my camera either. I have just been in a funk, but I am trying to pull out of it.

Eating outside at the restaurant where Nikole works

Stephen chessin' it with 'Kold (as he calls her!)

The view from our room at the Shell Island Resort

We had a fun the week before Easter at the beach. We spent 2 days at Wrightsville beach visiting Nikole where she is now attending school. Then we went to Ocean Lakes Campground to hang with Grandma and Granddaddy.

Then we came home and went to our church's Easter egg hunt....

Aren't they just the SWEETEST??!!