Oh my my friends....talk about emotional exhaustion! The retirement was nice, to tell the truth, I am relieved. I never in a million years thought I would feel like this. I thought I would be so in the dumps and sad. The process of getting out took two years, which was good because it prepared me for civilian life. I am still eating the buttercream yellow cake w strawberry cream in between layers w fresh berries.....Lordy! I think that goes in the freezer today, like a wedding cake.

The Baptism was nice, I don't go to church, I am not anti and I do believe but despite being confirmed I don't like to take communion. I get nervous. The church has pew boxes instead of pews. A trip and I got our own pew box and stayed out of the fray. I was very jumpy and someone came popped her head in and I thought I was going to die, she left and I did breath work.

The brunch following the ceremony at my moms was really nice. We all helped get it prepared and it was lovely. We were all smoke checked! The guests left the baptism brunch by 3pm. That is when I went to my house got all the bday stuff and surprised my Mom to the end, a task! We had a red (sister made)and a white lasagna, salad, bread, roasted garlic and her all time fav three layer carrot cake, grandmas recipe! My other sister said she would help so I asked her to get the balloons but she couldn't do that, she really couldn't with the baptism, baby, she doesn't live here so she helped w the execution of the plan. It truly was a sister team effort for Momma!
I was choking my cake down and pushing the opening of gifts because I just wanted to go home. It was nice but I way over exended my energy level. I was beat!

Thanks for supporting me.