It has been seven months since I wrote anything on my blog.  I feel like I need a completely new beginning because I have been gone for so long!

I'm not the usual blogger on this site.  Most are parents in the midst of child raising and home schooling.  I'm a grandma with ten beautiful grandchildren, most of whom I only see once or twice a year.  My oldest grandson will be 13 this year!  I'll have a teenage grandchild.  I'm also working full-time and looking forward to the time when I can reduce my work load to part-time at least.  I'm also now in the "young-old" group of people.  I just turned 65!!!!!!!  I can't believe that I'm actually this old.  I remember when my mother became 65.  She seemed old to me then as I must seem to my children and grandchildren.  For the first time in my life I find myself wondering how much longer I will be alive.  I find myself gravitating to the obituary page of the paper to see how many who have just died were younger than I am now.

As I look back on my life so far and look forward to my future I have so many things for which to thank God. I have been given many things that bring comfort to my life.  I have a home that is secure and comfortable and a place to which I love to return at the end of the day.  I have a husband whom I love, and who loves me in return.  I have daughters who have grown into beautiful young women and who are married to men who love them and provide them with secure marriages and who are wonderful role models of what fathers should be to all their children.  I have a job that gives me ongoing challenges and provides me with opportunities to love other people with the love that God has shown to me.  I have friends in the people with whom I work and who make going to work daily interesting and enjoyable.  Most of all I am secure in the knowledge that in Jesus Christ I have a savior who has provided completely for my salvation and that whatever my future holds I can rest in the knowledge that I don't need to fear anything that my future may hold.

So-o-o being in the "young-old" group of people is not such a bad thing after all.

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Posted by Melissa

I don't think of you as old...yet. Welcome back to blogland!

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Posted by Jackie

i figured the title would still say "hidden danger". how surprised was i to see something new?! horray!

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Posted by Jackie

and i don't think of you as old either...except when i think about the fact that you are 65 ;) but then i think...how can that be?!

oh, and seriously...the obits? i think you should save yourself the depression and stop doing that!

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