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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
It is home for us. We love it year-round. Frogs! HTWC!
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Same here! There was no way we could keep our CA home and buy here too. We chose to move here this year leaving all 3 adult children and one year old grandbaby behind in Calif. We’ve been here two weeks, and Thanksgiving was our first holiday without them. It was definitely bittersweet, but we are pushing 70 and had no more time to waste sitting at home in our empty nest with mostly nothing to do. Our kids were shocked, but supportive, though we only saw them 2-3x a year even when we lived close to them. They were all very busy with careers, and grandbaby lived 4 hours from us. Hopefully we’ll be happy here because it’s definitely full time for us.
We FaceTimed with them on Thanksgiving, and honestly if we were still there I would’ve been the one cooking all day, something I don’t enjoy anymore. It was nice seeing daughter-in-law hosting and cooking, and everyone helping her. They’ll definitely come visit us as they’re able, and we will do the same.
Next year we’ll figure out how to all get together sometime between TG and Christmas, but this year having just arrived after driving across country for 8 days we won’t be flying back there for Christmas. We’ll all survive.
