Counting the Hours
By my calculation, I have 37.5 more hours left in my working life. That's right--five days from now I will be retired. I've been quite surprised by the range of emotions that have arisen during the final months of my career. I love being a speech therapist and that's been a huge part of my identity forthe past 34 years. So, as much as I'm looking forward to having time to read, quilt and stitch (not to mention getting my house much cleaner and decluttered), I find that I'm sad as well. I will definitely miss the students but I'm happy that the meetings and paperwork will be a thing of the past. Blog posts have gone by the wayside the last two months as I've been preparing for this transition by spending long hours on the aforementioned paperwork and meetings. I managed to finish 40 hourglass blocks like these that will be sewn to sashing like this to make a quilt for my daughter. She goes to a college whose c...