Bridget Schmidt:  

Life in 2010: 1968 seems so.....long ago and sometimes it seems like yesterday. Since graduation I was married to Bob Blake who passed away in 1999 after our marriage/divorce of 20 years. I have worked for two fortune 100 companies (Norton 10 years/Hewlett Packard 10 years), and have since married Jerry Schmidt a native of Minnesota. The summer of 2000 Bob married and I now have four grandchildren, and am mother to Jerry's 3 children. Our youngest, Jeanna has graduated from Winona State and is now at married and gave us our grandsons MAX and ISAAC. My son,Bob his wife Deb, and 3 of their 4 children in 2008 moved to Arkansas where Bob is a project manager for a commercial landscaping company. (Miss them dearly!) I have 3 great grandkids living in Arkansas, Trevor, Cam'Ron and Jordon. 2 Greatgrandkids live in the Twin Cities, Alexis and Trentin. Jerry has been retired since June 2002 when we moved to Osakis where we live in our Lake home. He also has been very ill twice since retirement and now is a cancer survivor and has COPD. Disability is now his game and being my "go to" man for my business and loves to snowplow in the winter and mow lawns in the summer. After working for HP for 10 years, finishing my degree (17+ years) at the University of St. Thomas in Marketing and Management HP downsized and I went into real estate in 1991. I have now developed a successful business selling residential and/or new construction homes. For 8 years I also dis mortgages but have since made a decision to just do real estate. I love my business and really enjoy this business. I worked with Re/Max in...Expand for more