This is a picture of my only granddaughter and me. She's my youngest grandchild. We have a great relationship; a special bond. It might be because we do 'girl stuff' together - like in this picture where we're playing Barbies and took a quick break for a selfie. Or maybe because she enjoys my CCD craft and activity bin. Each time she visits, she can be found digging in that bin! She's smart AND beautiful! What a combination!
Being a grandparent is everything they promised! I highly recommend!
Happy New Year! 😀🎉
It's been a while since I've stopped by to post an update. We've had so many changes in our lives - I won't bore you with all the details. But I will summarize briefly....
My husband, Dave, and I have started a successful small business. We're in our 10th year, soon to start our 11th. It's an engineering consulting firm, specializing in vibration and sound monitoring and control - sounds like a snooze fest, but it's really pretty interesting...and most times, fun. We monitor vibration and sound producing events with a seismograph. Many times this is for construction projects, demolition projects, coal mines and gas wells. We are monitoring to assure compliance with State, Federal or other specification levels.
We also inspect houses and buildings that are close to these events; the idea being any defect in the building is documented. After the project concludes, we verify no changes in the structure due to the project.
Talk about a niche....
In any event, our company is a certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE), which means I am the majority stockholder. Our company is called Terra-Mechanics, Inc. - TMI for short. Check us out www.Terra-Mechanics.com
Empty nesting has been good for us. We spend a good amount of time together at work and also seem to know when the other needs space. Dave golfs with our son or in his league during his 'time to himself'. He's also active in his bowling league that he joined more than 30 years ago. He says it's a good way to decompress.
I prefer to stay to myself. I read, work on my lesson plan for CCD (Catholic Sunday School for any non-Catholics), or just hang out with the kitties.
But lately I've begun to return to my writing. I've been away from it for close to 12 years and I've missed it. I'm looking forward to restarting this blog as well as some other writing things.
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