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From Our Home to Your Home

Retirement Reflections

Wishing each of you a happy and healthy holiday season. Thank you for reading and for following along. Your friendship, comments and support have meant a great deal to me. I will be taking a blogging break from now until January. I look forward to seeing you then.

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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Published by Retirement Reflections

Prior to retirement, I lived and worked in Beijing China for fourteen years (Middle School Principal/Deputy Director at The Western Academy of Beijing). Leaving international life behind, my husband and I retired to Vancouver Island in June 2015. To document both this transition and our new adventures, ‘Retirement Reflections’ was born. I hope that you enjoy reading these reflections, and will be willing to share your own.

99 thoughts on “From Our Home to Your Home”

  9. Love the photos – I feel I’m right there with you! Have a blessed Christmas and we’ll look forward to your return! I managed to punch out one blog to cover November and December and I thought that was a real coup. 😂

    I’ll be offline too – not only do I travel to the San Francisco Bay Area soon for Christmas to see all my children, grandkids, mother-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, and last but not least my sisters and my Mom. But somehow I have to fit a move in there as well 🙀. I feel a New Year, new situation blog a-brewing! 👌

    Much love to you and yours Donna.

    Your Sun City friend,
    Susan Grace

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  10. Hi Donna! Good for you Donna! I have a “plan” to rest over most of the holidays but I’m not going “cold turkey” 🙂 like you. Enjoy your time together and I look forward to your words of wisdom and spending time with you again next year! ~Kathy

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    1. Hi, Sue – Thank you for reminding me about the new decade coming up. That makes it even more exciting. I look forward to keeping in touch! Have a wonderful holiday and RELAX, RELAX, RELAX! (That’s definitely my plan). 😀

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  21. Your home looks warm and festive, Donna! Enjoy your break and have a wonderful Christmas and New Year! I start my break on 12/22 and come back 19th. Taking the same road trip but staying in San Diego and Phoenix longer.

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  23. Merry Christmas Donna! Enjoy your blogging break and time with family and friends. I’m still blogging away for another week or so and then taking a couple of weeks off over Christmas/New Year. xxx

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  24. Your home looks very cozy and welcoming, Donna. A reflection of you and Richard.💕 I am grateful our paths crossed and we will have the opportunity to meet up more often. All the best wishes over the holiday season. I look forward to seeing you and Richard soon. xx

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  29. Hiya Donna, have a wonderful relaxing time over the festive season and look forward to catching up with you in the New Year. Thanks for all your supportive comments.

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  32. Hi, Donna,
    You have put a lot of work into your writing this year and have earned some time off to recharge those batteries. Enjoy! Your home is charming, and Helen and I both love the Teddy Bear stockings. Joe

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  34. Hi Donna- Wishing you and Richard a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year! I’m grateful that I met you both this year. Thank you for your friendship and supportive comments on the blog. I look forward to continuing our friendship.

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  37. Best wishes for a joyous holiday season, Donna.
    We are off on our holiday cruise to the western Caribbean tomorrow…pics to follow.
    🙂
    Nancy

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  42. Hello, Donna,
    Just wanted to send you a note on Christmas morning to wish you and Richard the Merriest Christmas ever. Looking forward to more of your Reflections in 2020. Have a Blessed New Year. Joe

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  43. Here I am, on January 3, looking at your beautiful holiday photo of home and loving couple, reminiscing already of the great December that’s passed, and hopeful now for a new creative New Year. Happy 2020! xo

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    1. Happy New Year to you too, Pam. I hope that you had a wonderful holiday. Richard and I have had tons of time with family and friends, and lots of visitors. Our youngest son returns to England this coming Friday. I am still on my blogging break, probably for another week or so. I look forward to catching up with everyone again soon!

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  44. Hi Donna and Richard – just got here … better late than never. Your home looked lovely and ready for a happy festive season – I’m sure you had fun … with lots of interesting outings. Here’s to a very happy 2020 – and all the best for the years ahead. Cheers Hilary

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    1. Hi, Hilary – Happy 2020 to you too! It was fun opening this post today and seeing our living room at the height of our Christmas decorations — which have all now been taking done. We still have family staying with us for another few days. After that, I will resurface from my blogging break. I hope that you had a wonderful holiday. I look forward to catching up soon!

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