Better?

Meg has been to work for two days now and seems to be surviving.  We THINK the fever is gone.  Hopefully...

I have been toying with the notion of retiring at the end of the school year due to the district's offer to do a buy-out (for health insurance)...but having crunched some numbers for awhile now, the decision has been made for me.  Not this year!  I would only be bringing in half of what I make now, and that's not going to work.  End of story.

The other day, Ryan was looking at me up close.  His experience with "skin" has to do with fruit.  When it is wrinkled, it is rotting.  Well...he took a good look at me and told me that my face was rotten.  Out of the mouths of babes...

Here we are nearing the end of January already.  I don't know where the time goes, and I'm not sure what the future will bring.  I only know that we keep plugging along with a modicum of satisfaction mixed with chaos.  A cousin of Meg's who is in the construction business is coming in a week or so to take a look at the garage remodeling project.  It's time!