Retirement

I'm trying to start blogging again. It's good for the soul and heart. 
Independence Day was a wonderful celebration with family and friends at the Haynie Price house. Linda decorates her home with awesome Americana finds. She and her Sister Nancy and Sisterinlaw Carolyn are queens of the Yard Sale. And they get the wonderful treasures that we all hope to discover but never do! What a wonderful day filled with tons of laughter and love. 
Retirement has been interesting. Knowing I'm not able to work a regular job anymore kind of slaps you in the old face and helps you realize this is it financially. I bemoan daily all the times I worked 2-3 jobs at a time. And now the payoff is, lets just say barely above the National Poverty Index. But it's something. All the things I thought I would do are not happening. Supporting myself for the majority of my life on one income did not leave me with anything extra. If I had it to do over again I would take care of money like a child. But it is what it is, as my friend Nedra Lois says.  
Thank goodness for my great friends and family. Nedra is very generous and she and I are able to shop and eat out for fun. I'm grateful for her and her friendship every day.  She is a Widow so has nobody at home either. 
I'm grateful.  For my Gram who left me her home. For Social Security. For Health Insurance this year after 8 years of stressing each day. May not have it again next year. And I'm not sure Medicare will be there after the next few years! I'm grateful for my 2 dogs, Charlie and HoneyMarie. Even if they are a PIA somedays! Ha
No.  Retirement is absolutely nothing like I envisioned for myself. But I will be grateful for what I have today.