Floridatennisplayer
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We just got back from just under 3 weeks of perfect weather vacation at our condo in Florida with our kids, grandkids, some nieces, sisters etc. Just the most fun vacation I think I have ever had. Sister and mom have condos 2 miles from ours.
Went to the beach, dinners outside, dinners poolside, shopping, wine, tennis, golf...just wonderful. Our grandkids who live behind us in Ohio, ages 2.5 and 4.5 absolutely love it down here. Our country club has an amazing lagoon style pool with waterfall, attached pool bar, snack bar, restaurant. So funny, we saw our grandson ...age 4 walk up to the pool snack bar and make an order. Later the girl came over to our cabana laughing and said...little Casanova put some chocolate chip cookies on your tab. Of course she saw me smile and give a thumbs up...she said he was so sweet and professional. She said to him...well sir, what is your account number? She said He smiled and said.....it’s Paw Paw. She loved it. He also asked her if she would be his best friend and come to his birthday party in Ohio. He has an attraction to women in bikinis. Such fun memories we have made.
So here is my delima. Our daughter and son in law and our only 2 grandkids live behind us here in Ohio. We absolutely love our kids and grandkids. We are over all the time and so are they. We are truly a very close and loving family. I will walk over and hang out with the kids, go home and a few hours later I am wondering what the kids are doing and I pop back over. Of course the kids stop what they are doing..running to me...Paw Paw!!!!!
So, sitting poolside at another beautiful sunset with the kids having the time of their life in the pool, my daughter looks at me and smiles....so, you are retiring in 4 months. And next year you plan to come down here in January and stay till April? Really? You can’t hardly go an hour without seeing the kids. How are you going to do it? And how are they going to handle it? They love you like crazy. Telling them their Paw Paw is going to be gone for 4 months .....hum......
Hum is right. I love these little kids so much. Hard to be without them. We are thinking of coming down early January bringing a car and leaving it. Then flying back in mid February for the little guys late February birthday, staying a few weeks, then flying back down. The fly back in mid April.
Anyone else in this situation. I’m sure after they are a bit older and in school it will no longer be an issue. But now in their formative years I just want to be with them.
Went to the beach, dinners outside, dinners poolside, shopping, wine, tennis, golf...just wonderful. Our grandkids who live behind us in Ohio, ages 2.5 and 4.5 absolutely love it down here. Our country club has an amazing lagoon style pool with waterfall, attached pool bar, snack bar, restaurant. So funny, we saw our grandson ...age 4 walk up to the pool snack bar and make an order. Later the girl came over to our cabana laughing and said...little Casanova put some chocolate chip cookies on your tab. Of course she saw me smile and give a thumbs up...she said he was so sweet and professional. She said to him...well sir, what is your account number? She said He smiled and said.....it’s Paw Paw. She loved it. He also asked her if she would be his best friend and come to his birthday party in Ohio. He has an attraction to women in bikinis. Such fun memories we have made.
So here is my delima. Our daughter and son in law and our only 2 grandkids live behind us here in Ohio. We absolutely love our kids and grandkids. We are over all the time and so are they. We are truly a very close and loving family. I will walk over and hang out with the kids, go home and a few hours later I am wondering what the kids are doing and I pop back over. Of course the kids stop what they are doing..running to me...Paw Paw!!!!!
So, sitting poolside at another beautiful sunset with the kids having the time of their life in the pool, my daughter looks at me and smiles....so, you are retiring in 4 months. And next year you plan to come down here in January and stay till April? Really? You can’t hardly go an hour without seeing the kids. How are you going to do it? And how are they going to handle it? They love you like crazy. Telling them their Paw Paw is going to be gone for 4 months .....hum......
Hum is right. I love these little kids so much. Hard to be without them. We are thinking of coming down early January bringing a car and leaving it. Then flying back in mid February for the little guys late February birthday, staying a few weeks, then flying back down. The fly back in mid April.
Anyone else in this situation. I’m sure after they are a bit older and in school it will no longer be an issue. But now in their formative years I just want to be with them.