"Have a retirement party!" they said. "It'll be fun!" they said. So G'ma Joan spent her first two weeks of retirement cleaning the house. 😂 This sweet lady graduated from Sacred Heart School of Nursing back in 1972 and has been working with patients ever since. First she did hospital work, but when she had kids she went to part-time clinic work. While we were growing up, she worked at a Pediatrics office--bringing home strep throat swabs for her own sick kids, and knowing all the kids in the Palouse on a first name basis--and then when we were in our teens, she switched over to the OB/GYN clinic, and worked there long enough to give Katie and I (and Kelly!) solid advice during our pregnancies. She is calm under pressure, and regardless of what Dad says, she's very compassionate toward people and their health issues. We think it's a combination of a God-given gift and years of service. But now, after 44 years of nursing, she's decided to find other hobbies for her time. We're predicting these will be spending time with her THREE G's: grandkids, gardening, and GREG. (God, be with her. 😂)
My kids didn't know that nurses used to wear CAPES. This is real-life superhero clothing, people.
Slow farmer crossing? We had lots of chuckles over this.
And Daddy brought his hammock to try out under the deck...
