Handsome Hubby and I love living in California. Can't imagine ever leaving (most days) and really don't think we ever will. However, neither one of us is from here and our families live thousands of miles away. Which, to be honest isn't always a bad thing. I think my in-laws wouldn't like me NEARLY as much as they do if we lived closer. ;) However, there are those times that you get really present to the things that would be really really nice if you lived closer.
Like your kids playing with their cousins.
My sister and her family are in California vacationing and visiting me. They stayed with us the last two days and it was really nice. And fun. I had the best time just watching my nieces play with the boys. They are both several years older but still young enough to have fun playing with the little ones.
Plus, I believe, it was the first time in our adult lives that my sister and I have had a chance to really visit and hang out without our parents around. And I'm pushing 40!
We just relaxed by the pool and talked and ate junkfood (Thanks my "skinny" brother-in-law!) It wasn't anything special...but it was.
And now I miss them. I didn't before they came and it had been 2 years since we'd seen them. But now I miss them. And I'm sad. I don't think I ever realized how much happens in 2 years until I had kids. And we won't see them for probably at least another 2 years.
