Time keeps on slippin' into the future

Then....

Anne mentioned the other day we should revive our blog.  Oh, right!, we used to have a blog.  With much noodling and digital digging, we found our original blog.  It encompassed 2008/2009 and then, as those with ADHD do, we forget about it. It's fun (mostly) to read those posts. It also reinforces that time has moved on regardless and some of those we wrote about aren't on this mortal coil any longer. JR found a job in NY, so we spent 5 years working in the City and living in Westchester County.  It was the best of times and the worst of times. Kat met the love of her life and got married. Two of our nieces died by suicide and we threw ourselves into advocacy. A few of my family succumbed to a family degenerative neurological disease, so again, we threw ourselves into advocacy.  Advocacy has been a wonderful journey and I can't state how happy it makes me to do the work.  In 2017 we returned to Denver and our condo. JR got a job working with former colleagues and had a blast. I opened my own company and worked with some great clients. We loved, lost, mourned and persevered.

Now....

It's 2024, December, and holy crap things are different, and older.  JR and I were fortunate enough to retire this year. We are now 71 and 62 respectively. Since 2008 we've gotten closer with our family of choice, our daughter and her husband now live in Denver, we took our first ever overseas trip and fell in love with Italy - hard. We've taken cruises, road trips, and land trips. We've traveled just the two of us, four of us, six, eight and ten of us. We did a cruise/land to Alaska and saw Denali, sled dogs and glaciers as well as a rain forest.  We've been to Southampton, London, Richmond on the Green, Paris, Normandy, Belgium, Dublin, Edinburgh, Sterling, Glasgow, Kotor, Aix in Provence, Rome, Venice, Florence, Pescara, Cinque Terra, Dubrovnik, Athens, Mykonos, Barcelona, Girona, Naples, Amsterdam, Orkney, and saw history unfold and met some great people along the way. We took road trips to National Parks, National Monuments, places of historical significance and saw wonders beyond our imagination. We visited almost every state; Hawaii remains.

Future....

2024 was a year of transition.  Learning how to 'be retired'.  We made plans and were able to distill those down and execute them.  We're learning Italian and will be spending time there in 2025.  2024 saw one of the most contentious presidential elections in history and we found out some hard truths about our country. The next 4 years - and beyond - will be tough for a lot of people. I'm still sitting with the repercussions and finding my footing. 

We hope the last 15 years were ones of growth, peace and happiness for you. We hope that 2025 will be everything  you want it to be and more.  Stick around for our adventures.

Stacey and JR