Bingo! There is the key sentence in your beautiful post. So many of us reach that point in our lives where we embrace all of this and begin to really enjoy it. And it usually happens around our 50th year on the planet. That seems to be the "don't care what people think of me" time in our lives. This is when the kids may be grown and out of the house, we feel well established in our home situation and when we finally realize, it's time to make ourselves happy. And my dear, enjoy it! It's never easy, but I can say, it's wonderful!!