Hi Deb,
I have to make this comment is response to your blog post re decades.
Thirty one years ago, at the age of 50, I enrolled in nursing school. Of course, I had a few re-requisites to do before I actually started my nursing. I had started college many many years before when my children (3) were still quite young and underfoot. But, I never finished, it seems like “life always gets in the way” of something or other.
I started working when I was 8 years old in my parents small grocery and meat market. Had to stand on a stool to reach the counter top and cash register. I worked at one thing or another throughout my adult life. Including baker, designer, truck driver (18 wheeler), secretary, adm. assistant. etc. At the age of 48 we moved from Oregon to Texas so that I could help take care of both a niece and brother who were dying. AFter life settled down again, I realized that working at what I had been doing was not what I wanted to continue doing. Funny, that at the age of nearly 50, I didn’t even consider that more than half my life had been lived; so I went to college with young people that were my children’s ages. I was actually older that a couple of the nursing school teachers.
When I graduated from nursing school, I had four job offers. I took one of those and kept moving on to bigger and better things. By this time, I was missing my children and grandchildren so much that we moved back to Oregon. Then my husband decided that he wanted to move to Florida to retire. Guess what, less than 2 years later we moved back to Oregon. From there,sixteen years ago at the age of 65, I started my own Telephone Nurse Triage Business and am still working at this. I can’t begine to tell you the great satisfaction and hope that I have experienced since I decided that I wasn’t too old to make a change. There is nothing more wonderful than being able to give help and care to others. Especially young mothers who don’t know what in the world to do when their baby has his first fever.
So, all you young chicks out there, don’t be afraid to dream big! Don’t be afraid to push forward with all of your hopes for something bigger and different.
One of the things I have dreamed of doing since I was a young girl is writing a book. Guess what, I have my first chapter written and that was done just this last year.
So keep on dreaming and keep on doing!
I pray that each and every one of you have a healthy, prosperous and wonderful NEW YEAR!
Suzanne

I love the Amish one but hopefully you have a half loft on each end that makes for great storaga areas. I have a ‘Quilt Studio’ shed a few feet from my house fully equiped with electricity. Love your story & Happy New Year!

It would be all black for me.