Ain't that the truth. I been putting x's thru the dates on my calendar so I can remember. I usually look at my phone to tell me day of week otherwise 🙃 😅.
You’re going to think you’ve died and gone to heaven! That first rainy, icy, morning after I retired and I woke up at 5 and heard that rain and sleet, I joyfully fell back in the warm bed and slept till 9!! Congratulations! 🎉🎊🍾
Me too!! I don't miss the stress of weather and traffic trying to get to work and then the long exhausting drive home knowing I had to cook dinner as soon as I got home. Retirement is WONDERFUL!!
Congrats Ms. Lori!! My daughter and I were discussing how our lives took similar paths. I married my Danny at the age of 16. I raised babies and worked at the pants factory and worked as a custodian, teachers aid, did my spill as a nurse and my Danny farmed, trucked, worked for the county road dept. He owned trucks and drove everything from tanks to eventually he hauled cars. He fell off of a ch8cken house roof in 2000 and broke his neck. Paralyzed from the chest down. 2011 God called him home. This year I retired from the school system. I pray you and Mr. Danny have so much fun together. You deserve it. Hugs prayers and much love from South Ga.
My husband & I married in 1981! Wow we have much in common! We started out with nothing. No furniture, no bed, no dishes, etc. I was a “ GI Brat” & we had moved around so much I didn’t really know anyone who’d give me a wedding shower, etc. We got married by Justice of the Peace in Texas & we were blissfully happy. We had each other. Now we still have each other & both disabled. My husband really suffers & I’m not too far behind him that way. But I love him deeply. We have 2 kids who grew up to love children & have rather large families. We all go to church & love the Lord.
I got married on February 4, 1962 and my husband passed on August 19, 2004. I remarried on March 27, 2010 and he passed on August 12, 2017. I have not worked since July 29, 1993 after my first husband had a massive stroke and had to have emergency brain surgery on February 1, 1993. He passed when he was 66, I was 61 and started drawing widows benefits I was totally exausted. I am 80 and just became great great grandma yesterday.
Congratulations on your retirement, I worked in the school system for 18 years 2 as a bus driver and 16 years as a custodian. I also just retired as of May the 2nd. Now, I get to enjoy my older children and my grandchildren. I have grandchildren in Georgia, and I get to go see them a lot more. My husband passed away 2 1/2 years ago and I'm collecting his ss and I'm going to wait to collect my school pension. Lori, you will love this time to get to spend time with Danny and your children. I'm so very happy for you both.
Congratulations Lori and Danny too. Because even though he’s been retired for a few months, now he has you to share it with. My husband passed away at 65. Two months after he reached retirement age. I’m so proud for you. Enjoy every minute of your time together. I pray that God blesses you with many years to enjoy your freedom. I’m now retired six months. It’s not what I had thought retirement was going to be. I’m doing it alone. But it is nice not to have to punch that clock. I worked till I was 70 because I didn’t know what to do with myself. Not being able to spend my last years with my husband made retirement put on the back burner. It wasn’t important for me anymore. But as I listen to you talking about how the years were hard and lean…it brought back all the memories of the hard times we went through and how God blessed us and brought us through it. I’m so very happy for you and Danny. Love each other. Enjoy your life. Prayers and love for you both. And thank you for sharing your life with us. ❤
@pamelanorred8959 bless you honey! It sounds like you’re writing my story. I also lost my husband right at his retirement age. We had made plans to retire together so we could travel and just enjoy having our children raised. Time just for us to rediscover each other. I did get to take care of him with a little help from hospice. He was diagnosed with brain cancer. After first surgery he lost speech and after third he was paralyzed on his right side. I gave him his bed baths, used a lift to get him into his wheelchair, doctored his incision that would not heal, fed him until he could no longer eat. Once hospice care started he only lived six weeks. It was a very special time for me to care for him. I don’t regret a single moment even though it was very hard. I could have taken him to a nursing home instead. For me that wasn’t even an option. Retirement just doesn’t mean what it used to. It’s lonely. But know you’re not alone. Hugs love and prayers. 🤗❤️🙏
I am so honored to be the first to comment on this particular video. CONGRATULATIONS on your retirement. I hope for the best for two beautiful people. Thank you for all you share on your site. I feel like we are part of your family.
I do relate! My husband sold his car to buy my gold band 54 years ago. We had no money, we were so poor we couldn’t pay attention! My husband was a student and I had just quit my job as a legal secretary. Both of our families asked if we needed anything when we were first married. We told them no, we would make it on our own. They never asked again, and a year later we were thinking “what were we thinking”! But, those hard times made us, and we always had food on the table, a roof over our head. My husband worked as an LVN in an emergency room at a county hospital. I stayed home to watch our babies. Then he became a carpenter, and went to school at night. Then one day he applied for the fire dept. and became a fire fighter, and our lives grew easier! We look back on those lean times as learning times, and some of the best times of our lives. Bless you both! You are so special.
I bought mine and my husband wedding band and it was only 14 for the two and they must have been good ones because I’m still wearing them after 63 years . I would never have let him sell his car for a ring . He was in college and about 4 hours away so he wouldn’t have been able to come home to see me if he didn’t have that car
We used to laugh and say we got married for the rice they threw. 🤣 That was 48 years ago...we didn't have much but we had each other. We bought one double record album and every Friday we'd play it and dance, cook hamburgers and dream about our future. We played that record til the wax was worn off it. Still look back on those days as the best years of our lives.
I wish your story of hard work could be told to every middle school aged child, or at least high school aged child, to help prepare them for REAL life! I am so happy for y'all. Enjoy your travels.
This my friends is what America is all about. Hardworking folks that keep it going in spite of setbacks. Humble too. I will always have hope for this country because there are people like this in every town across the fruited plain…
OMG😂 when my husband and I got married in 1977 we paid $150 for two wedding bands we threw the mattress on the floor from the couch hide a bed and lived in a studio apartment for the first 6 months. After 46 years of marriage my husband died in January. We had a good life together put the early tough times I'll never forget. Now I have a nice home and it's paid for can I have kids and grandkids an I count my blessings every day😊
Life is what you make of it and you two make it worth a lot. I hope your retirement is as great as ours has been! May God bless you and keep you safe for many years to come! Now take one day at a time and spend quality time together!
Congratulations you two on your freedom. Now you can truly go anywhere or do anything you want and don't have to answer to anyone but your Lord and savior. Enjoy your time together. Love you bunches.And may God bless you each and every day.
I’m surprised at the number of jobs they had. 😳 I always remember my parents working opposite shifts of each other so we were never in daycare. From the age of 5 I remember them working at their place of employments for years and years……. At around 5 we lived on a cattle farm and from there we moved about a mile up the street and lived there until my parents passed.
Young people today make me sad. Today they don't teach in schools...kids sit in front of videos and TVs and play their game boys and play stations oblivious to the world.
I wouldn't call them lucky, personally. This family right here is America and I would have to call them the lucky ones. I was born about 40 years later than I ought to have been. So I'm only 37 but, I sure do appreciate my elders and I admire their journeys. I love my newly found Arkansas kin folk, I can tell you that! Ya'll keep the videos coming. I wish more of your generation would share their stories on here but, the comment section is almost just as wholesome as these videos. I love the short life stories everyone shares. See ya'll on the flip side.
I am so happy for the two of you. I can see how grateful and appreciative you are for your lives as retirees. Enjoy yourselves, you have certainly earned it. I hope you're both blessed with many, many more happy years together ❤️ 🎉😊
I understand Mr. Brown and Ms. Lori. I’m 75 and all I have known since ‘67 is hard work. I retired about 3 years ago because of some health issues but the Lord has been good. I have got to spend precious precious time with my 6 yo granddaughter. God is good.
My husband worked his butt off for 36 years - I stayed home- home educated a load of kiddos and grands- we traveled on a shoe string budget- we went all over the place- packing school, kiddos and all- Now he is reviving from a stroke and I’m getting a job 😂😂 part time and I still go go go.. have gardens , quilt . Can 😂❤ life is 🎉🎉🎉🎉great!
Lori, never under estimate the work involved in raising a family. You and Mr. Brown are still together and are still smiling. Congratulations on your retirement and I wish you both continuing good health and happiness.
Isaiah 46:4 Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you. May the Good Lord bless you with many healthy years together, enjoy yourselves! And keep teaching the young uns.
Congratulations 🎉🎉 You made it together. I love the stories and memories. Reminds me of all the things I’ve done to get where I am. Raising babies, all 8 of them. Jobs, and retirement from driving a bus for 10 yrs.
Ms. Lori Congratulations on your Retirement, so Happy for you. My Mom said once she retired she didn't know how she did everything before she retired, and once she retired, she said she was so busy she thought she needed to go back to work to get some rest. Enjoy, you and Mr. Brown deserve all the best.Bless you,
Our granddaughter lives in Temple, Tx. where a horrible Tornado ripped through their city last night. Both she and her husband are Paramedics. Thankfully all they lost was a huge tree, and some stucco off of their house. Their next door neighbors car was skinned on the right side, and they lost their roof and fence. We are grateful they are all ok.
I am south of Austin. So thankful they were spared and thankful they are willing to carry the heavy load of being paramedics. I'm a nurse... I get it. Please thank them.
Living in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan. Retired, and moved up here. First 8 years without electricity or running water. We now have electric. Still use a hand pump and outhouse. We are content the outhouse cuts down on company. Growing up on a farm made me want to be in the country. My city grown husband didnt think we could do it. Now he dosent ever want to leave. Love your story, similar to mine.
Congratulations on your retirement. I reached 70 in December and retired from my bookkeeping job in our farm office due to my failing eyesight. One of our employees has stepped in to do the bookkeeping and is doing a great job. I had eye surgery in April and after 3 weeks of healing I have gained back much of my eyesight thanks to many answered prayers by family & friends. So blessed to be able to enjoy this chapter of life.
Just so happy for ya'll! You both truly deserve this amazing phase of your life. Thank you for sharing your life with us. Enjoy every minute and God Bless You!
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎈🎊!!!!! You will be surprised how more busy you will be now that you’re retired. I’m 68 and busier than ever. Enjoy every moment and just rest in between. Love you two. I’m sure you have many many good friends. You’ll be busy visiting. Enjoy your family. And the property always demands our time. I’m happy for you 🇼🇸💖💖💖💖🇺🇸🇺🇸💖🇺🇸
Congrats! I'll be 67 this year and have been retired since 62 due to my health. The best thing about retirement is that if it's storming or just an all-rainy day, you can stay home in comfy clothes, laze around and enjoy the day by reading, watching old movies/shows or whatever I want to do. Best days ever. You two have relatively good health and you have a lot of adventures ahead of you. Enjoy!
God bless you guys! I’ve enjoyed your channel for a number of years and I feel like you are kin. Congratulations on your retirements and may the good Lord give you many years to enjoy it!
You may have been broke along the way but you are so rich in so many ways. The abundance of your garden, your values, the Holy Spirit in your lives! As a young person, I’m so inspired by your hard work, faith, and perseverance. God bless you!
Congratulations! I will keep working past my full retirement age as long as I "feel like it". I lost my husband in 2020. He really liked Mr. Brown (grandpa's gun) because he was an OTR driver, too. Enjoy your lives, TH-cam friends.
You two are the absolute representation of what kids of today should be looking up to. Hard work at a young age all through life and a spiritual heart has made y’all such an example of the greatest kind of people there is. This video should be a required lesson in schools. I’m so very happy for your retirement and congratulations for all you’ve done and all you’ve influenced.
Seventy six here and I can remember the wonderful school lunch food. I’d bring home a cookie everyday to share with my mom when I got home. Good memories.
I remember the smell of yeast buns. Didn’t always get to buy my lunch . Daddy was in Korea it was during the war. I carried a potted meat sandwich. I can’t stand the smell of that stuff to this day. I’ll be 80 the last day of month. It cost .25 cents for a plate lunch . We didn’t always have that quarter. God bless.
I just wanna come and sit around a fire with y’all listening to the birds and just telling stories and talking for hours and hours. It just looks so peaceful there.
I am soo warm hearted after y’all’s update. Happy retirement Mr and Mrs Brown, You are such a light and example of what hard work, loving the Lord, keeping faith in the Lord and what living simple can do for us while we visit here until we are called home. Y’all are the mammaw and pops the country needs.. So thankful y’all allowed God to use y’all in this way to touch so many’s lives. God bless you both.
We wanna here your out west story especially my hubby he’s a couple years older than Danny and he’s excited to hear your out west stories our only son serves in the US Army going on 17 years now he did two tours over seas Iraq and Afghanistan we are very proud of him thanks for honoring our men and women it’s means a lot to us he’s stationed in Missouri right now with his wife they have no children but his life is the military and he is a 1st sergeant
I remember the last day after 32 years of preschool teaching . Sad but many happy memories. Then 2 months later my daughter informed me her family was moving to the west coast. Then finding out I have a cancer without a cure. Luckily it hasn’t done anything for 5 years. Praise God. Happy retirement to you and Mr. Brown.
The best advice I got when I retired was " give yourself permission to relax and enjoy doing nothing but what you enjoy". It was really hard to stop going full speed. Congratulations 🎉❤😊
Congratulations on your retirement! I retired in 2020 and it's wonderful! Like you, we grew up with nearly no money, but always had food on the table and clothes (hand me down) on our backs. Growing up on the farm is the best life there is!!!
I'm sooooo very happy for you all! Great examples for the youth today. I'm 70 this year, worked hard, very hard my whole life. The youngsters of today don't know how hard us older generations had to work for low wages. Congratulations 😊
I retired in 2013 and I still miss working…now I’m helping my daughter with her two babies…2&3.. Still miss my co-workers…my husband and I have worked all our lives…he’s 81 now and I’m 75… Congratulations you two… love watching you two
I think Mr. Brown is more excited than you, Ms. Lori! This is a whole new adventure for y'all and I'm sharing in your joy. Congratulations and may the good Lord keep you! 🙏🙏🙏
Our America have so many wonderful, hard-working Christian longtime married couples like you two. Oh even with all the problems in America now, our God has blessed us all so much, hasn’t he?? I have seen stories of Miss Lori’s and Mr. Brown’s from Montana to Maine, from Arizona to Florida. You are enjoying all the fruits of your labor!!!! Congratulations to my favorite sweet couple!!
I retired in 2013 and had a mild stroke in 2014. I was fortunate it was a mild stroke but I am totally enjoying retirement. I miss seeing my work family but I don’t miss getting up early everyday to go to work, driving 45-50 minutes each way. I remember feeling like I had to use my weekend just to rest enough to go again the next week. I am so thrilled for both of you to get to enjoy retirement. I am glad you are not waiting to do the things you want to do. Enjoy each day that God gives us. Blessings to you both……………….
I am so happy you guys get to retire and spend more time together. I retired at the age of 62 (Oct 2023) to spend more time with my husband who had health challenges. He was doing good I thought, but I was wrong. On the morning of January 22, 2024, I woke up to find my husband had passed away in his sleep. Your are truly blessed to have each other and I wish you many years of fun and joy going forward. Kim A. of PA
Retirement is great! I’ve been retired for 12 wonderful years! I worked for many years until I divorced my husband, then continued working full time, and went to college. All the time raising 2 children. It wasn’t easy, but it’s over now and I’m enjoying my life!
I know how you feel as I retired from teaching after 30 years and my husband retired from the Navy after 30 years as well only to pass away 3 years later. I have pressed on now for the last 17 years and it is so nice to set my own schedule, spend time with family and friends and to do all those things that bring me joy. Many blessings for your retirement
I was 6 my first paying job. I picked cotton and paid for my school clothes. My grandparents were in the fields with us. I'm almost 70 and am enjoying my retirement.
Lori ( my twin 😊) Congratulations on your much deserved retirement!! I couldn’t be happier for you & Danny! Sleep in late my friend! Pamper yourself. You deserve it. Love, Nannette ❤
Congratulations on a well- earned retirement! I finally retired after 60 years of nursing; was blessed for what I did, but FINALLY enjoying "my own time". 😁
Congrats. Your early days were exactly like ours. My hubby joined military to help us with insurance expenses. I drove a school bus for 14 years to be with our children. It was a great life, no money but we had each other. Horses were our life and we sacrificed to make that happen for our children. We just celebrated 65 years and so thankful for our life and health. Hubby usually sold something to allow kids to participate in rodeos. 💚💚
Miss Lori and Mr. Brown I am so happy for you both on being retired…. Now y’all can rest up and take it easy… I have been watching your videos for a long time and you are smiling more now than ever… God bless you both❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I retired after 35 years in healthcare and the last 10 years were in administration. I went back to work on contract for 5 years. I went back on my terms. It was great, I was able to collect my pensions and work revenue. It enabled us to do a lot of travelling without using our nest egg. We’re very grateful that that opportunity was bestowed on us. Congratulations to both of you, enjoy your retirement. Make time for yourself in your busy life, it’s important!❤️🙏🇨🇦
I am so happy to be able to say, “Miss Lori congratulations on your retirement!” You and Mr. Brown are so deserving of this happy time! I really enjoyed your reminiscing about your life together. Thank you for sharing with us! ❤️🙏🏻
God bless you guys for sharing your wonderful lives. I to am approaching the retirement ideas. Being from Missouri I appreciate your hard work and determination as my family and myself are those people. The Lord has blessed you guys and will continue. I to feel I am only a visitor here and will return home soon. Enjoy your new relaxed life. God bless.
I wish you both a long and joy-filled retirement together. After you get settled in to your new normal, you're going to wonder how you managed to get everything done all those years! You're right -- it all goes by so fast, and now, here you are. The best part will be getting up in the morning, having coffee together, and planning your day/week. Enjoy every minute. You both worked incredibly hard, and now it's YOUR time!!!
Congratulations on your retirement, Miss Lori. Reminiscing never gets boring. Come on Mr Brown, tell us your stories. We'll all gather round, and give you our full attention.
Congratulations! I been married since 1977, my husband retired two years ago. I said, the same thing, we started out together and now we are together all the time. Fabulous. We bought a fifth wheel and going travel. And We are selling our ranch out in California. I married a Californian, I am a Texan. Born in Houston. Also, I went too High School in Anderson Missouri.
Welcome to “ the what day of the week is this?” Club!
Yes, I keep saying, "I can't wait to retire, and not have to care what day or what time it is!"
My husband plays golf on MWF.....the what day of the week is this .
Ain't that the truth. I been putting x's thru the dates on my calendar so I can remember. I usually look at my phone to tell me day of week otherwise 🙃 😅.
That's true I get it been there done that,I thought it was friday lol at the bus on Saturday.ooops shshsh
@@Pamela_Gramlol my grandaghter:Grandma its wednesday.
You’re going to think you’ve died and gone to heaven! That first rainy, icy, morning after I retired and I woke up at 5 and heard that rain and sleet, I joyfully fell back in the warm bed and slept till 9!! Congratulations! 🎉🎊🍾
Right? And a beautiful spring morning with those early birds waking us all to enjoy the smells of a new fresh start of a day! God Bless and enjoy! 🌻
Exactly!!!👍🏼
Been there done that! What a great feeling! 😃
Me too!! I don't miss the stress of weather and traffic trying to get to work and then the long exhausting drive home knowing I had to cook dinner as soon as I got home. Retirement is WONDERFUL!!
Congratulations on your retirement. I’m so happy for you. You have earned it Ms. Lori. 💞
You guys are so sweet.....thank U for sharing!
Hard working talented people that made America Great.
Congrats Ms. Lori!! My daughter and I were discussing how our lives took similar paths. I married my Danny at the age of 16. I raised babies and worked at the pants factory and worked as a custodian, teachers aid, did my spill as a nurse and my Danny farmed, trucked, worked for the county road dept. He owned trucks and drove everything from tanks to eventually he hauled cars. He fell off of a ch8cken house roof in 2000 and broke his neck. Paralyzed from the chest down. 2011 God called him home. This year I retired from the school system. I pray you and Mr. Danny have so much fun together. You deserve it. Hugs prayers and much love from South Ga.
Love your videos, have watched so many I couldn't count. I am so glad you can go enjoy your retirement. ENJOY and God bless you both.
My husband & I married in 1981! Wow we have much in common! We started out with nothing. No furniture, no bed, no dishes, etc. I was a “ GI Brat” & we had moved around so much I didn’t really know anyone who’d give me a wedding shower, etc. We got married by Justice of the Peace in Texas & we were blissfully happy. We had each other. Now we still have each other & both disabled. My husband really suffers & I’m not too far behind him that way. But I love him deeply. We have 2 kids who grew up to love children & have rather large families. We all go to church & love the Lord.
I got married on February 4, 1962 and my husband passed on August 19, 2004. I remarried on March 27, 2010 and he passed on August 12, 2017. I have not worked since July 29, 1993 after my first husband had a massive stroke and had to have emergency brain surgery on February 1, 1993. He passed when he was 66, I was 61 and started drawing widows benefits I was totally exausted. I am 80 and just became great great grandma yesterday.
Congratulations on the new baby and the joys you have had in your life.
May God Bless you. Congratulations on your little sweet bun. ✝️🙏💛
Great great grandma. how beautiful! Congratulations ❤
Congratulations on your retirement, I worked in the school system for 18 years 2 as a bus driver and 16 years as a custodian. I also just retired as of May the 2nd. Now, I get to enjoy my older children and my grandchildren. I have grandchildren in Georgia, and I get to go see them a lot more. My husband passed away 2 1/2 years ago and I'm collecting his ss and I'm going to wait to collect my school pension. Lori, you will love this time to get to spend time with Danny and your children. I'm so very happy for you both.
i was born april 1962 just turned 62 this April. Congrats on your great grandma thats such a rare Blessing few ever reach. god bless you
I truly love you guys love and your country lifestyle. Although I'm a city girl from Chicago people seem to think I'm from the country.❤❤❤
Congratulations Lori and Danny too.
Because even though he’s been retired for a few months, now he has you to share it with.
My husband passed away at 65.
Two months after he reached retirement age.
I’m so proud for you.
Enjoy every minute of your time together.
I pray that God blesses you with many years to enjoy your freedom.
I’m now retired six months.
It’s not what I had thought retirement was going to be.
I’m doing it alone. But it is nice not to have to punch that clock.
I worked till I was 70 because I didn’t know what to do with myself.
Not being able to spend my last years with my husband made retirement put on the back burner. It wasn’t important for me anymore.
But as I listen to you talking about how the years were hard and lean…it brought back all the memories of the hard times we went through and how God blessed us and brought us through it.
I’m so very happy for you and Danny.
Love each other.
Enjoy your life.
Prayers and love for you both.
And thank you for sharing your life with us.
❤
@pamelanorred8959 bless you honey! It sounds like you’re writing my story. I also lost my husband right at his retirement age. We had made plans to retire together so we could travel and just enjoy having our children raised. Time just for us to rediscover each other. I did get to take care of him with a little help from hospice. He was diagnosed with brain cancer. After first surgery he lost speech and after third he was paralyzed on his right side. I gave him his bed baths, used a lift to get him into his wheelchair, doctored his incision that would not heal, fed him until he could no longer eat. Once hospice care started he only lived six weeks. It was a very special time for me to care for him. I don’t regret a single moment even though it was very hard. I could have taken him to a nursing home instead. For me that wasn’t even an option. Retirement just doesn’t mean what it used to. It’s lonely. But know you’re not alone. Hugs love and prayers. 🤗❤️🙏
@@sherrywilliams409AMEN and God Bless You Always, Dear Sister.✝️❤️🤗
I am so honored to be the first to comment on this particular video. CONGRATULATIONS on your retirement. I hope for the best for two beautiful people. Thank you for all you share on your site. I feel like we are part of your family.
Congratulations Lori on your retirement. I’m so happy for you both to start your new journey. I’ll be retiring soon too. ❤
Congratulations Miss Lori and Mr. Brown. Enjoy!!!❤
Love love your life stories! God bless you both ❤ enjoy 🎉
Yes!!!
Congratulations on retirement
Congratulations 🎊
I do relate! My husband sold his car to buy my gold band 54 years ago. We had no money, we were so poor we couldn’t pay attention! My husband was a student and I had just quit my job as a legal secretary. Both of our families asked if we needed anything when we were first married. We told them no, we would make it on our own. They never asked again, and a year later we were thinking “what were we thinking”! But, those hard times made us, and we always had food on the table, a roof over our head. My husband worked as an LVN in an emergency room at a county hospital. I stayed home to watch our babies. Then he became a carpenter, and went to school at night. Then one day he applied for the fire dept. and became a fire fighter, and our lives grew easier! We look back on those lean times as learning times, and some of the best times of our lives. Bless you both! You are so special.
I agree. We never took anything from anybody. It was rough at times, but we are retired now.
I bought mine and my husband wedding band and it was only 14 for the two and they must have been good ones because I’m still wearing them after 63 years . I would never have let him sell his car for a ring . He was in college and about 4 hours away so he wouldn’t have been able to come home to see me if he didn’t have that car
We used to laugh and say we got married for the rice they threw. 🤣
That was 48 years ago...we didn't have much but we had each other. We bought one double record album and every Friday we'd play it and dance, cook hamburgers and dream about our future. We played that record til the wax was worn off it. Still look back on those days as the best years of our lives.
Bless you both!!
What a terrific history!!
You have waited a long time! ❤😂🎉
Ms. Laurie and Danny 🎉 CONGRATULATIONS!!!❤❤❤
You Really Deserve It, God Bless
I wish your story of hard work could be told to every middle school aged child, or at least high school aged child, to help prepare them for REAL life! I am so happy for y'all. Enjoy your travels.
You and your kind are the bed rock of America! Thank you and congratulations!
Wow, thank you!
WOW!
This my friends is what America is all about. Hardworking folks that keep it going in spite of setbacks. Humble too. I will always have hope for this country because there are people like this in every town across the fruited plain…
Amen to that!
Amen. God hasn't forsaken us! He is seeing us through this. 🙏
My dad was a river boat captain 50+ years after retirement he tripped for years. He has finally let his license expire but is wishing he hadnt. 💖
I'm a storyteller, and I'm also a good listener, so I'd love to hear about Mr. Brown's trip out West.😃
OMG😂 when my husband and I got married in 1977 we paid $150 for two wedding bands we threw the mattress on the floor from the couch hide a bed and lived in a studio apartment for the first 6 months. After 46 years of marriage my husband died in January. We had a good life together put the early tough times I'll never forget. Now I have a nice home and it's paid for can I have kids and grandkids an I count my blessings every day😊
Us too- 11/18/1977
So sorry for the loss of your husband. Grammy from Texas
So sorry about your husband’s death in January!😢 So from one widow to another: I will be praying that GOD shows you HIS LOVING CARE ❣️❣️❣️❣️🙏
Yes dear so sad for you hubby.
Life is what you make of it and you two make it worth a lot. I hope your retirement is as great as ours has been! May God bless you and keep you safe for many years to come! Now take one day at a time and spend quality time together!
Young people today have no idea how lucky they it. Congratulations on your retirement. Live it to your fullest.
Congratulations you two on your freedom. Now you can truly go anywhere or do anything you want and don't have to answer to anyone but your Lord and savior. Enjoy your time together. Love you bunches.And may God bless you each and every day.
I’m surprised at the number of jobs they had. 😳 I always remember my parents working opposite shifts of each other so we were never in daycare. From the age of 5 I remember them working at their place of employments for years and years……. At around 5 we lived on a cattle farm and from there we moved about a mile up the street and lived there until my parents passed.
Young people today make me sad. Today they don't teach in schools...kids sit in front of videos and TVs and play their game boys and play stations oblivious to the world.
Congratulations on your retirement !
I wouldn't call them lucky, personally. This family right here is America and I would have to call them the lucky ones. I was born about 40 years later than I ought to have been. So I'm only 37 but, I sure do appreciate my elders and I admire their journeys. I love my newly found Arkansas kin folk, I can tell you that! Ya'll keep the videos coming. I wish more of your generation would share their stories on here but, the comment section is almost just as wholesome as these videos. I love the short life stories everyone shares. See ya'll on the flip side.
I am so happy for the two of you. I can see how grateful and appreciative you are for your lives as retirees. Enjoy yourselves, you have certainly earned it. I hope you're both blessed with many, many more happy years together ❤️ 🎉😊
I understand Mr. Brown and Ms. Lori. I’m 75 and all I have known since ‘67 is hard work. I retired about 3 years ago because of some health issues but the Lord has been good. I have got to spend precious precious time with my 6 yo granddaughter. God is good.
My husband worked his butt off for 36 years - I stayed home- home educated a load of kiddos and grands- we traveled on a shoe string budget- we went all over the place- packing school, kiddos and all-
Now he is reviving from a stroke and I’m getting a job 😂😂 part time and I still go go go.. have gardens , quilt . Can 😂❤ life is 🎉🎉🎉🎉great!
God Bless you both
I already posted, but I really want to hear about Mr. Brown’s trips. Love y’all. Congratulations again. Huggs and Prayers.
Lori, never under estimate the work involved in raising a family. You and Mr. Brown are still together and are still smiling. Congratulations on your retirement and I wish you both continuing good health and happiness.
Congratulations on your retirement Ms. Lori! Enjoy every minute of it, you sure deserve it.
So happy for you guys!!!!🙏❤️🙏
Isaiah 46:4 Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.
May the Good Lord bless you with many healthy years together, enjoy yourselves! And keep teaching the young uns.
WOW... you two deserve the best retirement
Congratulations, sending love your way you both. Relax and enjoy❤❤❤
Congratulations! You did it! Time will fly now, so take time to smell the roses!!!❤
I just retired after 45 years. you go girl! we can enjoy our gardening now! No alarm clock!
Congratulations 🎉🎉 You made it together. I love the stories and memories. Reminds me of all the things I’ve done to get where I am. Raising babies, all 8 of them. Jobs, and retirement from driving a bus for 10 yrs.
Good, hard-working people! No one more deserving than that, congratulations! Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!
❤ No work today lady! Run and have fun with Danny! You both deserve every minute together having joy and fun!!!!!
Happy retirement! Love watching your channel! Enjoy!
Ms. Lori Congratulations on your Retirement, so Happy for you. My Mom said once she retired she didn't know how she did everything before she retired, and once she retired, she said she was so busy she thought she needed to go back to work to get some rest. Enjoy, you and Mr. Brown deserve all the best.Bless you,
Our granddaughter lives in Temple, Tx. where a horrible Tornado ripped through their city last night. Both she and her husband are Paramedics. Thankfully all they lost was a huge tree, and some stucco off of their house. Their next door neighbors car was skinned on the right side, and they lost their roof and fence. We are grateful they are all ok.
Congratulations on your retirement! May God bless you both in all your endeavors.
Oh my goodness, I am so happy they are ok, sad, they went through it, for them and you
I was watching the storms last night. So glad everyone is OK.
I am south of Austin. So thankful they were spared and thankful they are willing to carry the heavy load of being paramedics. I'm a nurse... I get it. Please thank them.
Living in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan. Retired, and moved up here. First 8 years without electricity or running water. We now have electric. Still use a hand pump and outhouse. We are content the outhouse cuts down on company. Growing up on a farm made me want to be in the country. My city grown husband didnt think we could do it. Now he dosent ever want to leave. Love your story, similar to mine.
Congratulations on your retirement! You soooo deserve this! God bless you abundantly in this next journey of your lives!!!
Congratulations on your retirement. I reached 70 in December and retired from my bookkeeping job in our farm office due to my failing eyesight. One of our employees has stepped in to do the bookkeeping and is doing a great job. I had eye surgery in April and after 3 weeks of healing I have gained back much of my eyesight thanks to many answered prayers by family & friends. So blessed to be able to enjoy this chapter of life.
Just so happy for ya'll! You both truly deserve this amazing phase of your life. Thank you for sharing your life with us. Enjoy every minute and God Bless You!
Thank you so much!!
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎈🎊!!!!!
You will be surprised how more busy you will be now that you’re retired.
I’m 68 and busier than ever.
Enjoy every moment and just rest in between.
Love you two.
I’m sure you have many many good friends. You’ll be busy visiting. Enjoy your family. And the property always demands our time.
I’m happy for you 🇼🇸💖💖💖💖🇺🇸🇺🇸💖🇺🇸
Congrats! I'll be 67 this year and have been retired since 62 due to my health. The best thing about retirement is that if it's storming or just an all-rainy day, you can stay home in comfy clothes, laze around and enjoy the day by reading, watching old movies/shows or whatever I want to do. Best days ever. You two have relatively good health and you have a lot of adventures ahead of you. Enjoy!
God bless you guys! I’ve enjoyed your channel for a number of years and I feel like you are kin. Congratulations on your retirements and may the good Lord give you many years to enjoy it!
Thank you so much!
You may have been broke along the way but you are so rich in so many ways. The abundance of your garden, your values, the Holy Spirit in your lives! As a young person, I’m so inspired by your hard work, faith, and perseverance. God bless you!
So true!
Happy retirement!!! For both of you ...finally!
Congratulations to you both on retirement, God bless y’all and can’t wait to see your retirement videos and adventures
Congratulations! I will keep working past my full retirement age as long as I "feel like it".
I lost my husband in 2020. He really liked Mr. Brown (grandpa's gun) because he was an OTR driver, too.
Enjoy your lives, TH-cam friends.
You two are the absolute representation of what kids of today should be looking up to. Hard work at a young age all through life and a spiritual heart has made y’all such an example of the greatest kind of people there is. This video should be a required lesson in schools. I’m so very happy for your retirement and congratulations for all you’ve done and all you’ve influenced.
I second that and amen!😊
Im so glad I saw this video and I love you both so much !
May your days be filled with God’s Love and Light
We appreciate you so much!
WOW, how wonderful - those kids are going to miss you - I still at 77 remember the cafeteria ladies and their wonderful food.
Seventy six here and I can remember the wonderful school lunch food. I’d bring home a cookie everyday to share with my mom when I got home. Good memories.
I remember the smell of yeast buns. Didn’t always get to buy my lunch . Daddy was in Korea it was during the war. I carried a potted meat sandwich. I can’t stand the smell of that stuff to this day. I’ll be 80 the last day of month. It cost .25 cents for a plate lunch . We didn’t always have that quarter. God bless.
I just wanna come and sit around a fire with y’all listening to the birds and just telling stories and talking for hours and hours. It just looks so peaceful there.
Bless you both as you enjoy this chapter. Love watching you.
Thank you! 😊
Retirement is the best! Choosing how to spend your own time is a gift. Congrats!
Valerie in SC
I am soo warm hearted after y’all’s update. Happy retirement Mr and Mrs Brown, You are such a light and example of what hard work, loving the Lord, keeping faith in the Lord and what living simple can do for us while we visit here until we are called home. Y’all are the mammaw and pops the country needs.. So thankful y’all allowed God to use y’all in this way to touch so many’s lives. God bless you both.
Congratulations to you both. Enjoy your next chapter. God bless you both ❤️
Congratulations on your retirement! Enjoy yourselves! You’ve earned it!
We wanna here your out west story especially my hubby he’s a couple years older than Danny and he’s excited to hear your out west stories our only son serves in the US Army going on 17 years now he did two tours over seas Iraq and Afghanistan we are very proud of him thanks for honoring our men and women it’s means a lot to us he’s stationed in Missouri right now with his wife they have no children but his life is the military and he is a 1st sergeant
So happy for you two. Your videos are always great. Thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you for your kindness
I remember the last day after 32 years of preschool teaching . Sad but many happy memories. Then 2 months later my daughter informed me her family was moving to the west coast. Then finding out I have a cancer without a cure. Luckily it hasn’t done anything for 5 years. Praise God. Happy retirement to you and Mr. Brown.
The best advice I got when I retired was " give yourself permission to relax and enjoy doing nothing but what you enjoy". It was really hard to stop going full speed. Congratulations 🎉❤😊
And learn how to say "No".
Ma😮in prob with it is time flies when you're having fun.Inquitbworking 16 yr.s ago and it seems like 3 or 4 yr.s. Just fled fast as hek.
Congratulations on your retirement! I retired in 2020 and it's wonderful! Like you, we grew up with nearly no money, but always had food on the table and clothes (hand me down) on our backs. Growing up on the farm is the best life there is!!!
I'm sooooo very happy for you all! Great examples for the youth today. I'm 70 this year, worked hard, very hard my whole life. The youngsters of today don't know how hard us older generations had to work for low wages. Congratulations 😊
Yep,& don't save a penny.. spend it in 1 day..
I retired in 2013 and I still miss working…now I’m helping my daughter with her two babies…2&3..
Still miss my co-workers…my husband and I have worked all our lives…he’s 81 now and I’m 75…
Congratulations you two… love watching you two
Loved every minute of it would love to hear about his trip,out west.
I'm so happy for you to get to this new journey in your lives. It must be amazing. The feeling of being free to do what you want to do. Enjoy it .
It really is!
I think Mr. Brown is more excited than you, Ms. Lori!
This is a whole new adventure for y'all and I'm sharing in your joy.
Congratulations and may the good Lord keep you! 🙏🙏🙏
Our America have so many wonderful, hard-working Christian longtime married couples like you two. Oh even with all the problems in America now, our God has blessed us all so much, hasn’t he?? I have seen stories of Miss Lori’s and Mr. Brown’s from Montana to Maine, from Arizona to Florida. You are enjoying all the fruits of your labor!!!! Congratulations to my favorite sweet couple!!
Congratulations on your retirement and new stage of both your lives. 👏
I retired in 2013 and had a mild stroke in 2014. I was fortunate it was a mild stroke but I am totally enjoying retirement. I miss seeing my work family but I don’t miss getting up early everyday to go to work, driving 45-50 minutes each way. I remember feeling like I had to use my weekend just to rest enough to go again the next week. I am so thrilled for both of you to get to enjoy retirement. I am glad you are not waiting to do the things you want to do. Enjoy each day that God gives us. Blessings to you both……………….
I am so happy you guys get to retire and spend more time together. I retired at the age of 62 (Oct 2023) to spend more time with my husband who had health challenges. He was doing good I thought, but I was wrong. On the morning of January 22, 2024, I woke up to find my husband had passed away in his sleep. Your are truly blessed to have each other and I wish you many years of fun and joy going forward. Kim A. of PA
Congratulations on your retirement!!❤
Retirement is great! I’ve been retired for 12 wonderful years! I worked for many years until I divorced my husband, then continued working full time, and went to college. All the time raising 2 children. It wasn’t easy, but it’s over now and I’m enjoying my life!
Congratulations Ms. Lori and Mr. Brown. Have fun, enjoy life. The simplest pleasures in life are now yours
Congratulations on your retirement!!!
I know how you feel as I retired from teaching after 30 years and my husband retired from the Navy after 30 years as well only to pass away 3 years later. I have pressed on now for the last 17 years and it is so nice to set my own schedule, spend time with family and friends and to do all those things that bring me joy. Many blessings for your retirement
I was 6 my first paying job. I picked cotton and paid for my school clothes. My grandparents were in the fields with us. I'm almost 70 and am enjoying my retirement.
Congratulations! Now on to bigger things.. Get to workin!
Lori ( my twin 😊) Congratulations on your much deserved retirement!! I couldn’t be happier for you & Danny! Sleep in late my friend! Pamper yourself. You deserve it.
Love, Nannette ❤
This made me tear up. My husband retires in 3 years. I'm behind him by a few years. I cannot wait to hang out with that amazing, handsome man more.
Oooih.❤
Congratulations
Congratulations on a well- earned retirement! I finally retired after 60 years of nursing; was blessed for what I did, but FINALLY enjoying "my own time". 😁
Congrats. Your early days were exactly like ours. My hubby joined military to help us with insurance expenses.
I drove a school bus for 14 years to be with our children. It was a great life, no money but we had each other. Horses were our life and we sacrificed to make that happen for our children. We just celebrated 65 years and so thankful for our life and health. Hubby usually sold something to allow kids to participate in rodeos. 💚💚
Miss Lori and Mr. Brown I am so happy for you both on being retired…. Now y’all can rest up and take it easy… I have been watching your videos for a long time and you are smiling more now than ever… God bless you both❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
And now the fun begins! Congrats to the both of you! Wishing you many years of a happy retirement…you deserve it! ❤
I retired after 35 years in healthcare and the last 10 years were in administration. I went back to work on contract for 5 years. I went back on my terms. It was great, I was able to collect my pensions and work revenue. It enabled us to do a lot of travelling without using our nest egg. We’re very grateful that that opportunity was bestowed on us. Congratulations to both of you, enjoy your retirement. Make time for yourself in your busy life, it’s important!❤️🙏🇨🇦
Congratulations! Your gonna need a job to get some rest I can already tell. That's how it is with me.
God Bless You Both....
Y’all’s life story is so beautiful , y’all are blessed and y’all are a blessing. Thanks so much for what y’all do
Congratulations on your retirement!! Now you and Mr. Brown can enjoy the next chapter of your lives with a lot less stress.
U2 are looking healthy and happy. I’m so glad that you’re getting to retire
I am so happy to be able to say, “Miss Lori congratulations on your retirement!” You and Mr. Brown are so deserving of this happy time! I really enjoyed your reminiscing about your life together. Thank you for sharing with us! ❤️🙏🏻
God bless you guys for sharing your wonderful lives. I to am approaching the retirement ideas. Being from Missouri I appreciate your hard work and determination as my family and myself are those people. The Lord has blessed you guys and will continue. I to feel I am only a visitor here and will return home soon. Enjoy your new relaxed life. God bless.
I wish you both a long and joy-filled retirement together. After you get settled in to your new normal, you're going to wonder how you managed to get everything done all those years! You're right -- it all goes by so fast, and now, here you are. The best part will be getting up in the morning, having coffee together, and planning your day/week. Enjoy every minute. You both worked incredibly hard, and now it's YOUR time!!!
Congratulations on your retirement, Miss Lori. Reminiscing never gets boring. Come on Mr Brown, tell us your stories. We'll all gather round, and give you our full attention.
Congratulations to you both!❤🎉
The way you two moved toward retirement for the regular person is inspirational. ❤
Congratulations! I been married since 1977, my husband retired two years ago. I said, the same thing, we started out together and now we are together all the time. Fabulous. We bought a fifth wheel and going travel. And We are selling our ranch out in California. I married a Californian, I am a Texan. Born in Houston. Also, I went too High School in Anderson Missouri.