25 Years: 2011-2015 More Memories

    2011. The family was growing. Birthday in March. The newest and latest child added to the clan! Where did we go, what did we do? Took a beach trip or two? Visited Indiana... likely. Did we go to Florida? I am thinking this was so.

    2012. I was able to get a job far away, which I promised to my children that would mean that we would go to foreign countries, which we did in a cruise the following year. Oh, the memories. Are they so old? Were the Christmas and Spring break vacations not good? Surely, they were...

    2013. Returning home from abroad, going on our trip to Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas. What else? Things got to normal, sort of, reunited with the family. I did a long term substitute job with a new high school forty minutes away. That was okay money, but the next career job did not come fast. 

    2014. Sort of a lean year, really. My mom got sick all the way and passed. I mostly made money subbing, which was not great. I did my part-time Army time, which was only a few times per month. I tried to do an extra language class in the summer, but that went up in smoke, which was disappointing, but I got more family vacation time. I liked the extra hours per day reconnecting with my family. I had missed them for a great while in 2012- 2013, far away. We took the trip to Wyoming, and Utah, and California, and back through Texas and Tennessee, healing from many mosquito bites.

    2015. Got a contract driving to D.C., then Tyson's Corner. That worked for then. Jen was working more and making more money. I tried to encourage the children to mow lawns, rake leaves, shovel snow... It was not that easy to get them motivated. They had what they wanted, enough cash and things.  We did okay, and we were getting ahead financially... I think. Memories? Another trip? Likely Florida. The year before was New Orleans...