[nanci2539]

Wow Scott, I had my first child at 20 as well. He just turned 40 and I can't believe I have a 40 year old son! My daughter just turned 38.

I am very blessed to have two very successful adult children and beautiful grandchildren. It's nice to know they are in a good place and have happy lives.

I think they know it's the best move for us - we left our friends in Boston when we moved to IL 12 years ago. It's great that we all ended up in the same town and it wasn't planned at all. We just ended up in IL for different reasons and live within a mile of each other.

They have busy lives with the children and our get togethers are getting far and few in between, especially in the summer. We still work and with little kids, you remember how hard it was to get them gathered to go out. Their weekends are full with social things going on in their neighborhood or different activities with the kids.

I know once the summer is over, it settles down. I try to have lots of Sunday dinners but by 6PM, the kids need to get home, bathe and in bed to get up early for school.

I babysit but not as much as I did when my daughter was going for her masters and I watched my granddaughter a few nights every week. Especially when her hubby traveled.

So, now that I've told you most of my life story here, you can probably appreciate the pull I have in leaving! Just knowing the family is around gives me a good feeling! If that makes sense.