A new way

 I read, I used to think I just read some but now I know I read allot. I so enjoy reading and sitting that I have to make myself exercise or the new Craig's list overstuffed chair and I will soon look alike ( eating cookies and cake are involved in reading) but I am so glad I took the time to do all this reading all my life as I am using it now in my second career. I can also remember it which is unusual as a woman stopped by with a friend of mine to spend the night on their way and she told me she came to my house and helped with a tea I gave. I have no remembrance of the tea. I am quite concerned that I can't remember a party I have given let alone a person who assisted me. YIKES!
Yesterday I gave a workshop for a group of preschool teachers. It was soooooo much fun. They liked me, They liked the presentation and a woman asked me to come to Topeka and give a talk this summer. I am enjoying this so much. " She has so much to say and is so willing to share it" That is what my Kindergarten teacher said and she was so right and now I have lived long enough to say and share it! YEA and  get paid!!! That is a big bonus!!!!
People are asking me about what I did before....I have already told them I am almost at the end of raising 8 children....and homeschooling them what do they think I was doing????  People ask strange questions... they don't think before they ask. Maybe they are just trying to engage me but that is not a good way. I consider what I did in the first part of my life my best work. The kids are doing so well. Each is doing what they love and that is the best part. I will just now be going out of the house to do what I like but what I love was being home and reading to my kids it was the best time ever and I miss it sooooo much.