55 Days ......

...... until Son #3 graduates.
Not that I'm counting, but he is.
Actually, he's sitting next to me and just saw that a friend posted that on Facebook.
But he's still counting.
: )

I'm totally fine with his counting.  I get it.  I think I more than get it.
He's ready to get out of here.
To spread his wings and fly.
Gee ...... I wonder how that feels?
: )

Yes, that was a wee bit of sarcasm.  I know exactly how that feels.
We are both ready to spread our wings.  It's an exciting time.
I never thought I'd think of that word when talking about my life.
Well, not since Jim died.
My "after" life and the word "exciting" in the same thought?
Not so much.

And yet here I am, writing that word, and believing that thought.
I'm at an exciting point in my life.  I can do what I want, when I want ...... after August.
I will answer to no one, and be responsible for no one on a day-to-day basis, other than me.
I can discover more about me, and the person that God, and I, want me to be.

And ...... I can go to NY and stay for as long as I want.
I look forward to hosting all of my friends who have told me that they'd love to visit.
All of you who have told me that you're living vicariously through me.
Which, when I stop to think about it, stuns me.
Because really?!
Who'd have thunk?

It's been a long 5+ years.
Very, very long.
I wouldn't want to re-live them ...... for anything.
Ever.
Thankfully, I don't have to.

But I do get to live now.
And I do get the chance to decide what I want to do now.
And where I want to do it.
And that's pretty damn exciting.

55 days.
Plus a couple of months.
But who's counting.
: )

Happy Easter, Peeps.
I hope you were blessed today.
: )