Grandma Henke

I loved my job.   For the last twenty plus years I was the Executive Director for The Arc, an agency that worked with adults who have developmental disabilities.     It’s kind of easy to love your job when you are around people every day who adore you and never think you have a bad hair day and I miss my all my fun friends and our crazy conversations … but oh do I ever love being retired!     It is really addicting!

Today I went grocery shopping.    Who’d have thought it could be such fun!   I haven’t  gone grocery shopping in the middle of the week , in the middle of the day, for over twenty years.    It was really cool.    You run into a whole different crowd than you do at 11 P.M. on a Friday night.    People are a lot friendlier around lunch time than at midnight.    Actually, Lynn did most of our grocery shopping for the last 5 years, either that or we went at night or wasted Saturdays buying groceries and putting them away.    I got so I hated grocery shopping because I was always so tired when I did it … but today it was like an outing.    I felt like Harriet Nelson pushing my little cart around the store in broad daylight … except I didn’t wear the house dress or the frilly apron.

It’s been four months now and I still want to kiss the floor (not my floor for heaven’s sake!   Maybe Harriet Nelson’s floor) every Sunday night when I realize I don’t have to get up and go to work in the morning.    This is it!   I have arrived!   I decide now what I want to do and when I want to do it … and it makes everything a heck of a lot more fun!     

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