The fact that I am a senior citizen is something I am embracing more every day. I still think of Lorena as a young wife. I do not think I will ever think of the kids anything other than… kids. But in reality, they are adults and have been making their own way and paying their own way for ten years now. The thing that is most distracting to me as a senior citizen is something I have heard others describe and that is that you beginning to disappear to large swaths of society–even when you are in the room, you are not really in the room, if you know what I mean. Plus, the realization arrives that you are not really needed so much by the kids any more other than for moral support. That is a good thing, but hard to digest for us. Then, with retirement on the horizon, it is way more stressful than expected trying to figure out what to do when there is not full time job. It just makes me realize how thankful I am for wife and family.