Hi Jane. Is your son’s family getting ready to move up to Chicagoland?
Good to hear about the liberal sister! Yay!
Do think there will be a lot of people going for McCain that would normally vote Dem. Goodness! The Dem candidates are not just awful but downright scary!
Hope your Mom’s bedsore heals fast with the vacuum thingy.
Never heard of it either. Can’t say that I’ve ever seen a bedsore, now that I think about it.....
Hi, Molly!
No. They have re-thought moving, due to the real estate market and the fact that they have decided they don’t want to move the kids from all of their extended family on both sides.
DIL would have to commute to downtown for a job and there would be no support system for sick kids, soccer practice, late-night museum events, etc. My son continues to work up there and is coming home on weekends. He has started looking for something in this area but will keep his commitment to the company he is with through Christmas.
Meanwhile, my husband is living and working in Denver. He has a good job but it doesn’t pay enough for us to have him fly home too often. We want to keep this house so he is looking for a small apartment in Denver. He hasn’t tried too hard because he also had two other interviews and may be moving on from Denver to California or northern Manitoba.
I am SO glad we got AT&T cell phones for us! I can talk to either my husband or my son without incurring long-distance fees. I am keeping the homestead running here and selling things on ebay (stuff left over from my antique mall days plus odds and ends from here and things of my sisters’). It’s a pretty good income and requires no business wardrobe. HA!
I have shipped things to South Korea, Denmark, and Japan. I also was contacted by a French army major and put him in contact with one of my buyers, since they were both interested in an old book I had. Both are working on military history research and were quite interesting.
I am constantly amazed by the communication opportunities the internet offers.
I hope your mom gets better. I know how stressful caring for older parents is.