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March 3, 2020

Sentence a Day 02.2020

Welcome, girlsies, to Sentence a Day, 02.2020 – my February in one run-on sentence a day. These posts such a great way to journal your day-to-day life. If you haven’t joined us for this link-up, it’s not too late to start for 03.2020. And if you are interested, let me know in a comment below […]

Filed Under: Life and Style Tagged With: #LifeAfterRetirement, #Paul, #Retirement, #SentenceaDay

February 21, 2020

My Winter Bucket List: Update, 02.2020

Welcome friends, it’s been a month since I revealed my winter bucket list and today it’s time for the first update on my progress. Gathering with some of my favorite blogging buddies to see what we’ve ticked off so far and to figure out what’s left to do. While I call mine a bucket list, […]

Filed Under: Life and Style Tagged With: #bucketlist, #LifeAfterRetirement, #LifeandStyle, #MyWinterBucketList, #Retirement, #WinterBucketList

January 1, 2020

Currently, 01.2020 & Winter Goals

HaPpY hUmP dAy, fRiEnDs! And more than that…Happy New Year and New DECADE! Linking up with Anne in Residence for Currently 01.2020. The first post of this shiny new year. Also sharing my winter goals and my progress on my autumn goals, you can review them, here. Anne sends out the month’s prompts and then we […]

Filed Under: Life and Style Tagged With: #Currently, #Decluttering, #LifeAfterRetirement, #LifeandStyle, #Organizing, #Retirement

December 4, 2019

Sentence a Day, 11.2019

Sweet friends, thank you for joining me for this month’s Sentence a Day 11.2019. It was another crazy month around the castle. But before you read all the deets for November, you might want to have a quick review of what happened in October, here. These posts are lots of fun to write and provide […]

Filed Under: Fashion Forays, Life and Style Tagged With: #FashionAfter50, #LifeAfterRetirement, #Retirement, #SentenceaDay, #Winter2019CapsuleWardrobe

October 6, 2019

World Through My Lens, 09.2019

Shutterbugs and Photographer Friends, Welcome to the World Through My Lens, 09.2019. This is a collection of photos I took during September for the 2 photography challenges in which I am participating. There’s the Sunday Stills series hosted by Terri at Second Wind Leisure Perspectives and The Everyday Eye Candy Project 52 with LaShawn at Everyday Eye […]

Filed Under: Craft and Create Tagged With: #EyeCandyProject52, #LifeAfterRetirement, #photography, #Retirement, #SundayStills, #WorldThroughMyLens

October 1, 2019

Sentence a Day, 09.2019

Hola, Amigas! First Tuesday of this shiny new month means it’s time for my Sentence a Day, 09.2019. So glad to see fall sashaying in with some rain and much cooler temperatures. Happy to report I have jumped into the whole pumpkin spice thing with both feet! Had my first PSL, pumpkin bread, pumpkin doughnut […]

Filed Under: Reviews and Reflection Tagged With: #LifeAfterRetirement, #Retirement, #SentenceaDay

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OOTDs and SIAs: My Fashion Haus 07.2020
In what felt like the blink of an eye, I have gone from full-time wife to my sweet husband, hands-on mom to my two beautiful daughters and elementary school librarian to a retired, empty nester with lots of time on my hands. Join me on my journey to rediscover who I am. Glad you are here...

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