It's no secret that the Mother of the Year award escapes me time and time again. I love my kids. I enjoy my kids. But from the onset, most mothering never came naturally to me (except the discipline and butt chewing job). I remember reading that in the last trimester before birth mothers go into "nesting mode". I don't think that happened with me. I do remember crying thinking "I have a Master's degree in education and know nothing about babies". It was frightening and made me feel incompetent. Parenting has had that effect on me alot! Others always seems to have it all together (maybe they are just better at hiding it than I am!).
Where's all this going and what does it have to do with retirement? I've always loved analogies. For instance, I described menopause to younger friends as puberty without the good body (ok - sorry, I slipped up and mentioned the M word even though I swore this blog wasn't about THAT change). For me, retirement is like birthing a new life. Now I get to raise myself :) With that, I've started some reverse nesting.
Here's what we've accomplished so far (and who knew there would be so many little details to prepare):
cleaned out closets getting rid of school clothes we'll never wear again, cleaned out computer and blackberry files, emails, contacts, etc from work owned equipment, packed up the office and found new homes for years of saved teacher resources, sent new contact information to people, made final dental appointments before we lose our dental insurance, set a meeting to create an investment account for our retirement rollover, finalized some travel plans including making sure someone will be mowing Gramma Georgia's grass while we are gone, bought "needed" travel items - locking truck bed cover, camera, Ipad, went shopping for retirement wardrobe for Donnie - nothing but shorts :), and ordered the equipment needed to access our Dish Network service from anywhere so Donnie won't miss a Cardinal game! Yep - I think we are almost ready.
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