For Mom - Happy Retirement!

This morning, my mom is sleeping. While lots of households across Austin are waking up this morning to prepare themselves, their children, or their classrooms for the first day of school, I really hope my mom rolled over a few extra times and cuddled up with the pillow.

If you count her own very first days of elementary school, through jr high, high school, university, and through a long teaching career, this is the first first day of school in 50+ years that my mom doesn't have to go back for another year of the classroom.

I can't imagine many people in Austin will have a bigger smile on their face today than my mom.

Congratulations Mom! Today is the real first day of your retirement! :)