Union Jackie's

Happy New Year!! Welcome to 2013!

Okay - so I am a little late with the annual felicitations but, hey, it has been terribly busy these last few months in my little part of Texas!

Living 70 miles away from where you work three days a week, but where your kids go to school 5 days a week is not for the faint of heart and my heart must be fainting because I have decided, for the sanity of our family, not to return to my place of employment next year. I have very mixed feelings on this as I truly rnjoy my job, but sanity is important too, as well as physical health so needs must!

So. What next? Great question. Money must continue to pour (dribble?) into the family coffers so I must do something. I'd prefer to keep office hours with the kids and that means school but school non-teaching would be my preference, para professional with a short drive even better. I'm kind of thinking it would also be neat to start a small business. I have a name for it and everything. "Union Jackie's": Sourcing English Nostalgia, Deep in the Heart of Texas. Catchy huh? I have so many ideas to bring a little bit of England to the Hill Country and to enjoy it too. As soon as school is out and I have some TIME!!!

So that catches me up a bit.

Other things, am enjoying reading Philippa Gregory books. I avoided this series for a while because they looked a bit boddice ripping for my taste but they aren't that way at all. I have learned so much more about the Tudors and the Elizabethan period from reading them than Mrs. Hancock every taught me in 7th grade back in the day! I think I was the last person on the planet to read The Other Boleyn Girl, followed by The Constant Princess and now the rather salaciously titled The Virgin's lover. I highly recommend.

More to come....and I pledge to write more often than once every 7 months!