In June, Kathy retired from her job as a Resource Room teacher at Woodmere Elementary School in Eatontown, after 26 years of teaching.

Kathy says, "Retirement - what's not to like?"

• She can actually get the recommended 8 hours of sleep at night.
  
  
• A traffic snarl doesn't ruin her day.
  
  
• She can vacation when rowdy children are in school.
  
  
• She can finally get her money's worth out of that gym membership.
  
  
• She can be a "lady who lunches."
  
  
• She can eat at wonderful restaurants at midday prices.
  
  
• She's more available to be a helpful Nana.
  
  
• She can spend Thanksgiving with Dan in Austin without resorting to skullduggery to get Wednesday off.
  
  
• She can explore those opportunities she always meant to - yoga, knitting, beading, literature group.
  
  
• She actually has time to enjoy being a church school teacher and Elder at Hope Church.
  
  
• She has time for more visits to her Mom in Pennsylvania and for her Mom to visit Kathy and Bill.
  
  
• She can make small in-roads into getting the house organized. (... um, not too much to show here, yet.)
  
  
• She can really become computer literate instead of faking it or blaming the computer.
  
  
• She has time to be the kind of person she thinks she should be.

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