Retirement Is Boring? Whoever Said That?

So now I am 60 years old and officially retired. But does retired equal bored? Not so far in my book, it doesn’t. In fact, there are still never enough hours in the day for all of the things I want to do and learn.

For the past two plus years, I’ve been taking care of my young grandson full time while my daughter was at work. Now he’s almost four years old and has a new baby sister, so mom is on maternity leave for the next year. Can you believe it, a whole year off? When I had my two oldest, about forty years ago, I think my leave was six weeks or something like that. Times have sure changed.

Anyway, back to the present. It’s been almost a month since I stopped watching grandson, so what have I been doing with my time? Well, during the first week, said daughter was in hospital having the new baby and grandson was staying at our house. Then my oldest daughter and her husband came to stay for a week to see the babies.

Did I say babies? Yes, I did. My second oldest daughter decided that she would have a baby too, the week after her little sister. I watched her almost two year old for the day while dad was at the hospital with her. So that makes two grandbabies in less than two weeks. The first was a girl and the second a boy.

Oh, and my 84 year old mother came to stay for a few days too, so she could visit the clan. Two of my sons and their families dropped in when they could as well. The only one missing was my youngest son, who lives in Vancouver.

Now see how time flies when you have a big family? We visited, played games with the kids, visited, ate, and visited some more. Somewhere in there we slept. Outings to the great white world of winter Canada were kept to a minimum because it was just too cold.

Then after all the excitement and company are gone, I usually crash for a few days and do nothing while my body recovers. Now I’m ready for the next part of my life as a retiree. Not quite sure what the future holds yet, but I know it won’t be boring.

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