Am I wrong? Aren’t there women all around us looking around and wondering, “How did I get HERE? and WHO am I now?”

Well, if they aren’t all around us there is at least me and you, dear reader, so let’s chat.

Hi, welcome to Reninvetedme.com, a website chronicling my adventures finding who I am, now that mother is not my primary identification.

A little bit about me. I am a sixty-something wife of thirty-something years and a mother of two twenty-something boys. In 2016 I retired (the company’s nice way of saying you are too old and cost too much – go away) after thirty-four years of service. I was nowhere ready to quit working and began a yearlong search for another job. I quickly found that there is not a high demand for nearly sixty new hires. In 2017 I found an awesome job with a nonprofit and I am just now beginning to settle into a new normal. While my work life was in upheaval, my mother status changed significantly as well. My oldest son has moved out of the house. My youngest is back home after graduating from college has one foot out the door and the other on a banana peel. They both have very little need of daily mothering.

That being said – I need to find where I fit in the world today. I think I would like to build a community of women like me. Women whose life is pushing them in a direction that they weren’t planning or ready for. Perhaps the first step in building that community is this blog.

Crystal Paine, blogger extraordinaire said in a recent Instagram post, “So if you want to pave a new path, carve a new way, grow your blog, or build a new you in 2018, it starts with taking tiny intentional steps in a different direction”. This post is that tiny but intentional step towards that community I would like to build and the reinvented me I want to be in 2018.

This post isn’t pretty or anywhere near perfect but it IS the first step.