Beth2 is Just New Account

[beth2]

Hi, guys, it's me. I got lost again. Found the site and couldn't get name and password to work so I just created a new account.

Think I *will* lay down a trail of breadcrumbs.

Elizabeth
New Zealand

[lucie]

LOL! Now Beth,maybe Carolyn should send you a map to find your way...?

[Admin]

aww Beth, glad you found us no matter how..Hugs..

[braided-rug]

Beth, I stay logged, I didn't use that method at first on other boards, but it sure makes life easier.

I admire you for filling out your sig. etc. again. Glad you made it back.

[beth2]

<hangs head to hide redface> You could send me a map, but I might lose the dadgum thing. ;-)

I stay logged in at home (hence the reason why I can't remember the password and user name, because I never need it) but at work the history and such is cleared fairly regularly as, um, we're not reeeeeeally supposed to use it for personal reasons, but everyone sorta looks the other way as we do have downtime when we are STUCK here overnight. I mean, I might ot WANT to sleep 8 hours! ;-)

<sigh> But, this time I made this account so I can at least remember the easy password etc until I can get the other one sorted.

[Admin]

Beth, I put all your posts and Praise points on your new Beth2 account. That way you don't have to worry about the other account. HTH...

[beth2]

Thanks, Carolyn. :-)

Kentucky, huh? My sister now lives in western Kentucky - I'd have to look up the name of the nearest town but it's on a military base with her husband and their 1yo son - she just moved there a couple months ago from Florida.

When I was in Florida, before I moved to NZ, I tried for a long time to talk my sister and her then-boyfriend now husband into moving to eastern Tennessee in the mountains. Almost had 'em, but they changed their minds. Nowadays I'm trying to talk them into a much bigger move - to NZ! :-)

[Admin]

Beth, that would be either Ft. Campbell or Ft. Knox. My dd lives an hour away from Ft. Knox.
You sure are a world away from your family. How do you cope. When I moved to KY with dh I left my two kids in Michigan and one in South Carolina..It was very hard. Now we are scattered....

[beth2]

Hi, Carolyn,

Fort Campbell sounds right. Yeah, I'm too far away. I love living here, but I miss family - all the little things like getting together for an impromptu meal or a windowshopping trip or hanging out together or going to the kids' ball games.

My niece and nephew were like my own kids. I love my life here, but I have given up a huge part of my life to be here, and I hope as the kids get older we can reestablish that bond. I'd love more than anything for them to visit long-term or even move here, but I don't see either happening anytime soon. :-(

[braided-rug]

Yes Beth, I thought of the two locations thing later.

[Admin]

It could happen Beth...When we moved here our oldest dd was in South Carolina, Virginia and then Illinois (military) Our middle daughter was in Texas and our Son was in Michigan. Recently our oldest dd's hubby retired from the AirForce and they decided to move to KY. I was sooooo happy. They are still 191 miles away but at least in the same state. Our son lived her for three years and taught school but he didn't like it here. I can't see him moving back or our other daughter living her..Sigh..Oh well, such is life and we just press on eh?

[beth2]

Hi, Carolyn and all,

Gosh, your family was as spread out as mine is! (Mom's in Indiana, Debbie's in KY, Linda's in Florida, and assorted other family are in Missouri and a different area of Florida.)

I never liked northern Florida, and I used to consider moving away, like, seriously consider it. I never did, because around that time my sister got pregnant and then I fell madly in love with my newborn nephew and couldn't bare it. I didn't want to live even a couple hundred miles away, much less 500.

Then what happens? I move 10,000 miles away! AJ once asked me why couldn't I have married a guy from Florida. ;-)

I used to hear of people not seeing family for several years and wondered how that could happen. Unfortunately, now I know. I do hope to get things settled though so that I can visit or have someone visit me at least every 18 months or so.

[Admin]

understand so much Beth. My dh was born and raised here in KY where we now live. He came to Michigan to visit his brother, hired in at GM, met and married me and stayed 30 plus years up there so I could be near my family. I thought it only fair that when he retired and requested to come back home to be near his brothers, that I comply. When we left Michigan our dd Tami, had just had a too cute set of twins. They were a month old. I thought I would die being away from them. We made it a point to drive up there every two months for about 18 months or so. Then my dsil got the idea to move to Texas and be near his family. What could I say. I hated it...So now we are lucky to see that daughter and those kids once every couple years. But choices were made and lives are lived with and we press on. It is hard not to see my kids and grands more...Sigh..Hope you get to see your family soon..

[beth2]

Oh, life was simpler when we lived and died in the areas where we were born, huh?

Car, does your daughter like living in Texas? Do they come to see you or do you go to see them? How old are the grandkids now? I have a nephew that I have met ONCE when he was a month old, compared to having spent every day with my other nephew and his sister until they were a year or two old, and then still saw them several times a week. They were almost always at my house on weekends.

When you go to Texas, do you drive or fly? Perhaps if you fly, you can get some cheap deals and go even just for a weekend? I know sometimes you can get cross-country for a hundred bucks or so, return, or at least you used to be able to. When I was in Chicago last year, had I gotten my domestic flight then instead of from here before I got there, I could have flown to Florida for like 70 bucks or something. Just an idea. Maybe a couple weekends a year? Just decide to do it and go get the ticket even if it's months in advance and then it's done?

Driving there and back would be too much to do very often. Have you ever flown?

[braided-rug]

My DH has been in my next of the woods now for a very long time. He is older than me. I think we might like to go back to the city he was born in sometimes. Maybe I should give it more thought.

I remember when my kids (the eldest) were little we saw all my cousins etc. I think families are like that, the eldest get so see everyone for awhile then it changes.

We were living near dhs family, they all came here to this area of the state as teenagers. A few years ago ILs went to live near one of their sons, or other son. Then the sister moved there, and we were asked to move there. I am two hours from my ancestral home (Dad's only goes back a few generations), it seems like more. We are more isolated here from everyone not just family, shops etc. I haven't seen most of my family for 3 years, but it seems not that long, I think that is because I am older, over 40, and time gets away with me, maybe because I have lots of children to fill my time, not sure.

We did think of moving, but ds is going to uni next year in February, so we will take that hurdle first and see what happens from there.