This morning I sent hubby off to begin his grand retirement adventure. He’s been looking forward to this trip for many, many months. I hope the next two weeks exceed his expectations! It’ll be interesting to see how well his loosely planned itinerary worked for him. It’s the exact opposite of how we’ve always scheduled any trips we take. Guess not having to report to work on Monday morning does make a big difference. Can’t wait to find out for myself!

My “poor me” attitude was quickly erased at finding a Singer 99k hand crank for sale in my own backyard. It seems one was donated to Must Ministries, a local charity that I support. I’ve reached out to seller for more details. This might be my Saturday morning adventure while Sadie goes to the spa.

Tomorrow, we’re doing fun Friday of activities at school. It’s a fund-raiser for sorely needed funds to spend on student and staff incentives. Over half of our students have paid the $10 fee to participate in the glow party, color run, dance, robots, bubbles, and yes CRAFTS.

I was tasked with finding craft activities that could be done at little or no cost to the school. Well, I’ve certainly taken advantage of the opportunity offload my slime supplies, Perler bead and yarn collections. I planned slime for 475 kids, pom pom making for 100 kids, melty beads for 100 kids and a butterfly paper plate craft for 150 kids. Everything except the grade level slime kits is prepped. I merely need to portion out the classroom kits once the final numbers are in tomorrow morning.

And those sewing machines I was gifted? The Janome is at school, the Kenmore with me and the other two were deemed “landfill” by my sewing machine repair person. I’m kinda bummed about the vintage White machine, but it’s not worth it to repair, especially given the previous repair slips I found and shared with my friend. I’ll keep the accessories and list the machine as a parts only machine on eBay.

Tomorrow is my husband’s last day of work. It seems like graduation when you move the tassel on your mortar board once your degree has been conferred. He’ll wake up Friday morning with a status change from employed to RETIRED. He said he has absolutely no problem with being a “kept husband” while I continue to work. I told him to enjoy his newfound status while it lasted!

April and May will go by in a blur as I wind down the school year. When we return from spring break (next week), I’ll have 35 work days left. That’s it! Here’s to what’s next!