I have finally done it!

I have finally sat down and started this blog, part of a commitment I made to myself to start writing daily again. It has been a few weeks now that I have been on this journey of my new start with no regular employment.
A month ago I sold my business and home to move to a near by town to live with the man I love, in the process relocating my two teenage children who were of course ecstatic about leaving their friends and everything they knew and felt validated their existence in this world. Because my true love makes a good living and I do have some resources to depend on, we decided that I would stay home and not get a job. I actually feel quite blessed to be able to concentrate on finishing the raising of my two teenagers, assisting him in any way in raising his teenage daughter who spends sometime here off and on, and providing a home for all of us. I am going to love it, it is just difficult to switch gears and will take some time.
It is going to be quite different not working, not producing, not being in total control of my finances and ownership of everything I have and do. I had not been anticipating being in this position at 40. Though I embrace where I am in my life...I am sensing that there will be a fair amount of personal growth happening.

But in truth I am not completely unemployed. I am not spending my entire day lazing about watching the daytime line up,oh no! It turns out that on the beautiful, scenic acreage he has owned for a few years is a dog boarding kennel. He has not had a kennel operator for about a year so it seems just perfect that I could get things organized and open up the kennel for business once again. What an ideal situation! I can still be home and yet produce some income for the family, wonderful!
Yup, wonderful. There are forty kennels in total, so far we have only had four full at one time which may be a good thing. I am quickly figuring out what kind of dogs come to a kennel when their owners go away...the barking kind! Some are the all day barking kind and some are the all night barking kind.
You can't tell right away what kind they are, but they will let you know. Some of those furry little darlings will let you know as soon as their owner's car leaves. It may start off with a small sad howl because they have been abandoned, or may be a happy excited, " let's play", bark to the other dogs that are there. Then, there is my favorite kind of dog that feels it is their personal duty to bark protectively at all  the scary things that only come around at two in the morning...As I said, I think there will be a fair amount of personal growth happening.

So, as the early morning sun shines out over the lake and I watch the view brighten with all the colours coming alive in the trees along the hillside I must finish my coffee and close my post, because I also hear the rumblings of a huge German Sheppard who suffers from separation anxiety.
Till tomorrow.