Well, I guess this is the day everyone waits years for, today I have retired after about 38 year of working. It doesn't hardly seem possible. I can't say that this is how I had expected it would happen!
I first started working years ago following the death of my oldest son. Back then most woman did not work and I had never planned to, but one Sunday afternoon a woman in our ward bought my second son to me kicking and screaming. She handed him to me and said; It's time you do something about how spoiled this kid is. Of couse as his Mother, I thought he was just perfect, and I still do! The very next day, I drove to Logan and enrolled him in a little day care center called Joy D Nursery. Back then, our school systems had no preschool, etc. I then got a job at Mode O Day clothing factory 1 block away and the rest as they say, is history.
Right from day one I loved working no matter what job I had. My first full time working job was sewubg at Mode O Day womans clothing store, then a few years at the Frankli County Extension Office and later I decided to open a floral shop where I specalized in wedding work. I ran the flower shop for over 30 years.
On December 12, 2005 a huge fire burned the old OP Skaggs building next door to us right to the ground. How our building was spared I will never know. Following the fire and smoke damage cleaning I never got the flower business back up and running. Just two weeks before the fire I had a good sale pending but following the fire and all the mess on main street, the couple decided not to buy the shop. I never did get the flower shop opened up after the cleaning for smoke damage took place. Since I had planned to stay in the building and try running a scrapbook store so I would be available to train a new owner, I just decided to go full time with scrapbooking.
In March of 2007 a gal who's husband was stationed at Mountain Home Airforce Base contacted me and wanted to purchase the business. I explained that it was less than a year old, with no financial records but she said she still wanted to purchase the Scrapbook Store, so on April 15, 2007 I sold the store and took over as Manager as per her request. The new owner had little or no interest in scrapbooking or the store. She had a rough time meeting all the requirement to become a new owner and never was able to provide what was necessary to advertise and support the business until it became profitable. After several possible sales were delayed or failed, she contracted with an auction company out of Pocatello, Prime Time Auctions to come and auction off all the contents. That sale gook place on Thursday, November 29, 2007.
Even thought this is not the way I had planned to retire after so many years, it is time. I have a desire to tutor women like myself who want to do digital scrapbooking so they can get all their photo's and memories preserved.
I have put off knee surgery for over 10 years and now I have no choice but to think of my health and to move on with what ever the next chapter of my life reads!
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