Your quilts are wonderful and I wish you and your husband best wishes. My husband and I went through a similar experience last spring. After the initial shock of it all, we just went with it and enjoyed our simple time together. We found that we could get by on so much less than we thought we needed. And when we thought we were at the end of our road, a job offer came and we almost dreaded my husband going to back to work. We tried early retirement but he wasn't quite old enough. But now that we've had a trial run at it, we can't wait for the real deal.