I'm 50! Now What?

I'm 50!  Now What?.......

The time has flown by.... at times.  With all that is presently going on, it's almost too much to acknowledge that I will be 50 years old tomorrow.  No fan fair - just a quiet dinner, with Chef John and the Entre Underground gang.  Chef John has graciously offered to let JD assist him for this dinner so that JD can say he cooked my dinner :)  isn't that nice?  I thought so.  There will also be about 60 0ther people enjoying this dinner, so let's hope he can actually do it :)  I know he can - JD really has a great palate and imagination to make a fantastic chef.  Who knows? This may lead to a career for JD in the art of cuisine.  That would be a terrific birthday after all.  As for a birthday wish - it is as follows:

I wish that our house will sell within a month so that Dirk will be happy.  I wish that we can find a suitable home to buy and retire in somewhere in Texas near San Antonio.  I wish that we can reconnect with many friends we had to leave behind 30 years ago.  I can't imagine how wonderful it would/could be to reconnect with all of these couples that Dirk and I started our life together with.  Michelle and Peter, Betty and Marshall, Mike and Mignon, Tyler and Anne Greenfield, Tom and Miranda Darr, Robert and Denise Fletcher, etc..... that would be so cool - to be able to sit around our pool (I want a pool real bad :) and bring us all up to date on the last 30 years - including the raising of our children.  

What is "Security"?

"But the deeper meaning lies in the wise recognition that the usual ideas about security and success are only misleading and stale promises, which do not give us the key to true satisfaction and contentment."

  This statement was one that I found myself pondering today (Saturday, June 23rd)  don't you find this a profound statement? I finally came to this conclusion, on my own when I had to begin to sell items that held a lot of meaning.   Because we need the money to go forward in life.  Those items that I thought "held" my security (material value) I learned once sacrificed became all the more valuable to me in the closeness I felt with God.  i wouldn't trade that feeling for 10 houses!  My security lies within my love for the Lord!

My house is still not on the market for sale and I have to 1) find another home in Texas and 2) qualify for a loan for a house in Texas 3) sell this house to qualify for a loan for a house in Texas.... etc..... you get the picture.  Apparently, there are 3 real estate agents fighting for the listing and on and on goes the wheel..... it's both a blessing (the relo company) and a bit of a "situation" thus far, we'll see how it all plays out - :)  

Eden leaves for cheer camp tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. ( cheerleaders always get up a dawn and it's always been that way) I don't know how it is that some things never change.  So far, she has been able to stay a Marquette Varsity Competition Cheerleader for as long as we are here.  They didn't immediately replace her, which is so great!  She loves it so much and I am putting it in God's hands as to how to help her acquire a spot on her school squad in Texas as that would make her very happy.  Only, they kill mothers of kids who try and get onto squads in Texas, don't they?!  :)  That may be a problem.......

J.D. is super anxious to get enrolled into college in San Antonio or Austin (hasn't decided on U.T. or UT.S.A.) and I know he'll make a ton of friends in no time at all.  Hopefully, we can get him into a situation that will allow him to experience the freedom and excitement of living on his own while still with a room mate of some kind be it dorm or apartment.

Higgins is very old and fragile.  I'm trying to get my arms around that and how to get him comfortably to Texas.  Dirk said someone here would sedate him and crate him and he would wake up in San Antonio with me cooing his name...... sounds a little too perfect to me - how bout you?  I really can't imagine him up in some "attic" of an airliner without heating and freezing and scared of the noise which is absolutely terrible in my imagination...... he is deaf though, which may be a good thing.......

just got the word that the house goes officially on the market on Sunday at our 1st open house.  So!  Boom goes the cannon and 'WE'RE OFF!'