A Very Merry London Christmas

            This past month has been amazing! London was not the only wonderful thing that happened recently, but it will be the focus of this post. If someone would have told me at the beginning of the year that I would get to go to London in December, I would have thought they were high. Something that I have prayed and dreamed about since I was a teenager has finally come to pass, and I thank God for providing the opportunity. Even though I only got to spend a week there, that trip helped make 2017 a great year for me. And going in December with Christmas right around the corner made it seem even more magical! I thought I would share a fraction of the pictures I took during my trip. I hope you enjoy and have a very Merry Christmas!

(Note: I have never used Flickr before, so I'm not sure if my album will show up properly. If you have any trouble clicking through the photos, let me know and I will try to fix it.)

Question of the Month: Retirement, What's That?

The Question of the Month is a bloghop that occurs the first Monday of each month and it is hosted by Michael G D'Agostino from A Life Examined. Here is this month’s question:

“What does retirement look like for you?”

            When I was in high school, I would have said I wanted to sell everything and travel the continental United States in an RV with my husband. As I’ve gotten older, I still love traveling and road trips, but I also like to have a place to call home, so I think I would have a more permanent residence and travel occasionally. I do hope I’ll be married with children by the time I retire and I imagine I would enjoy hosting family get-togethers or visiting relatives a lot. On quiet days at home, I would still be writing and probably take up knitting or quilting, and keep a small garden. I would like to have a home in a quiet, secluded area, preferably near some mountains. As to what I’d be retiring from, that all depends on if I ever get married. If I were married, I would be a homemaker, so technically, I would never really retire, because I would want to continue to have the grandkids over to visit. I guess, married or not, if my writing career takes off, I might eventually come to a point where I slow down and let the royalties continue to roll in (LOL), but I would not completely stop writing. In other words, I’m probably never going to retire :)

 

 

Question of the Month: Where to Next?

 

The Question of the Month is a bloghop that occurs the first Monday of each month and it is hosted by Michael G D'Agostino from A Life Examined. Here is this month’s question:

Of all the places in the world that you haven’t yet been to, where would you like to go next?

            Initially, I thought this would be a hard question to answer, because I love traveling and I have dreams of traveling to many different places around the world. It would be hard to pick just one place I’d like to go next. After thinking it over, I realized that I know exactly where I hope to go next: Virginia! “Why Virginia?” you may be asking, well, because that is where one of my best friends has been living for the past few years and I have not yet been able to visit her there. Since I have never been to Virginia, I would have a new state to mark off my list. It has been over a year since I have seen my friend, so it would be great to catch up with her in person again. Plus, she has invited me multiple times to fly out there, so I think it’s about time I go!
 

Where would you like to go?