I am a spiritual care-giving woman. After almost 32 years in public secondary mathematics education, I retired November 30, 2017. I have had an unbelievable first year of retirement. I have accomplished so much more than I ever would’ve dreamed. I am creating this blog with the goal of helping any other spiritual or caregivers or women or retirees to have the retirement or life of their dreams.

On this blog you will find a menu which I’m calling the ABC’s of retirement. Here are the three A, B, C's :Activities, Bible Study and Caregiver.

Many of these topics have three pages of additional topics underneath them. So far I have mostly developed Adult coloring, Art journaling, and Bible journaling. On each of these three pages I have posted my artwork. On the art journaling page I’ve included the prompts and my drawing that was inspired by the prompt.

Since January 1 I have been reading in six 365 day devotionals on the following words: Thankful, Joyful, Hope, Peace, Rest and Love. I have asked God to impress upon me one of the Bible verses that’s at the top of each devotional; and then I have Bible journaled about it in The Illustrated Bible, which has 12” x 12” spirally bound pages, half of which are blank for Bible journaling.

Over the coming months I plan to develop all of the topics I am hoping you the reader will let me know which topics you’re most interested in. I have accomplished something within all of these topics in my first year of retirement and I plan to continue to grow in each of these areas. It is my desire to help every spiritual care-giving woman and anyone else that is interested in my blog grow in whatever topic she would like from this menu.

I have been retired for a little over a year and I am stunned by how much I have been involved with in retirement. I made pages for only 10 topics in my ABC's of retirement but I could have used the entire alphabet! I am not super woman, but I do believe that God is enabling me to live a most amazing retirement.

N stands for Niche and I have found one in female Christian retirees, so that is what my audience is for my blog. I have not written posts for every category under each of my pages, but I can and am looking for my audience to tell me what they would like me to write about next.

On Labor Day Weekend, 2017, when I saw that the condo directly across from my 95 year old mother was for rent; I knew it was the right time to retire to care for her the rest of her life. Our house selling in less than a month, my school hiring my replacement, my colleagues wishing me well; all were indications that my husband Paul and I were following the right path.

So beginning on December 1st I had 7 weeks to pack up a 4 bedroom colonial to downsize to a 2 bedroom condo. We sold much of our furniture, donated, recycled or trashed hundreds of boxes; and fit everything in our new home except for what we stored in a 10′ cube storage unit. I accomplished my goal of emptying it before my Sint Maarten vacation and I'm now down to 100 boxes fairly neatly stacked in the garage.