Through Yet Another Year

Subbing sixth grade in Saugatuck.  I have a little break so I thought I would post.  It's a gorgeous and sunny day here in Saugatuck.  Tomorrow starts spring break, so I won't be subbing for a while.  I haven't been able to "sleep in" in over a week.  So, it will be nice to be able to stay in bed a little longer tomorrow morning.

Friedl and I ate at Clearbrook on Tuesday night.  We had the calamari!  Yeah!  We also had creole shrimp with angel hair pasta.  Delicious!  I had my leftovers today for lunch.

I'm looking forward to Easter.  There will be nine of us having Easter dinner together.  Several of us will color eggs next week.  Then on Easter Friedl will hide them.  The rest of us will go Easter egg hunting.  We did that last year and had a blast.  (We were like little kids....at least I was.)

It's odd how I have this new "normal" in my life.  Everything was so new and different when Ray died.  I just hated it.  Now I have new traditions and a new normal.  Easter dinner and egg hunt, Mother's Day with Friedl at Clearbrook, going to the Windmill Restaurant for lunch, Friday nights at Ox-Bow during the summer, on and on.  It's a new life and I'm enjoying it.  I never thought I would say that..."and I'm enjoying it" - but I am.  It's odd to be able to make decisions on my own about my business without going over it with a partner, but it's nice now.  I love running the bed and breakfast, I just hope this year is good enough to get me through yet another year.  -  Jimmy