Retirement

I turned in my retirement letter to the Superintendent today. There are still some loose ends that aren't tied up, and I wasn't making much progress with them tonight. Like a missing $20,000 in a VEBA account... Phone calls tomorrow!

Everything around here is so tied up in bad weather that I can hardly see straight. We have multiple inches of snow on the ground, even after a melt. It was below zero this morning. The weather is supposed to improve, but only rain...and later, warmer temps. That will make for slush and flood. The grandchildren have cabin fever. So do I!! Tense situations here.

I turned in my retirement letter today. Big step!
Some of my friends make it sound like retirement should be a piece of cake for me. Not so!
I will probably work harder as a retired person than I ever did working. The difference is stress. Teaching is a stressful vocation. Anyone who has ever faced 25 students six times a day understands. I won't be moving to Florida and I won't be lying around eating bon-bons. I will do the same as I do now, only without the stress of commuting to school, making lesson plans, grading papers, answering to parents, tending to Response to Intervention, and performing for six periods of students every day. I won't be able to sleep late. There are grandchildren that need to get to school on time. I look forward to the new situation, but I'm not stupid enough to think it will be one big vacation.

I need for the sun to come out and stay out for awhile. I need the snow to go away. I need to find the driveway again and to be able to walk around without worrying if I'll fall on my bottom. I need spring!! We have robins already. Some wintered over, which disturbs me, some. How can I tell if spring is approaching if the robins are already here??