I think everyone has in their mind’s eye what they imagine retirement to be. It can be traveling the world, it can be a beach house and leaving the world behind. It can mean spoiling the grand children rotten, or it can mean self-indulgence and treating yourself like the kid you always wanted to be….

Very fitting that my inaugural blog be about birthdays. My sweet baby James is about to turn thirteen in a matter of days. To him it is a huge milestone, to me it is a huge boulder that I tripped over somewhere along the way. I have a teenager? That absolutely cannot be correct. He was…