Here we are chatting via webcam with Gramma. The children do much better with webcam chatting than on the phone. I think it's just a little too impersonal and abstract still for them to talk on the phone. I'm so glad they like the webcam, because Gramma has really been missing them and trying not to feel slighted by their lack of phone interest. On the other hand, I think they are confused as to why she doesn't just come and visit them. They don't understand the distance.
I really miss my family, my mother especially. I often keep myself and the kids busy all day so I don't have to think about it. It's difficult for me, thinking that this is how it's going to be for a long time. I am really thinking that in a few years we'll build a mother-in-law out over our garage (which is going to need to be torn down and re-slabbed at some point anyway). Maybe I can convince my brothers to move out here once my parents move to Hawaii. Housing, at least, is affordable here.
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Part of me thinks we should ALL just pack up and move to Iowa. Cheaper cost of living - we could buy a house and watch the kids grow up!
It's hard, I know, to be so far away from home and especially from your mom. My first few weeks in Iowa I was absolutely home sick and stuffing my face full of comfort food. But in time, I started to realize the great things this new adventure was giving me.
This will be hard for awhile, no doubt - but it will hurt less as time goes on.
I love you,
Suzy
We're just a webcam visit away! I know it isn't quite the same, but not too bad, really! I hope I can arrange a webcam chat with you folks, soon, too! Mornings during the week are the best for me!
Did either of the webcams I gave you work for you or did you have to do something else?
You'll find more kids I'm certain. It's just a matter if figuring out where they are located. That is sometimes the hard thing about homeschooling, but if you find a good network and share a lot of the teaching, it will be good. I'm sure Leila will long for more kids to play with, knowing her!
We miss you too, and it will be weird to not always have you around for all of the family birthday parties, but as time goes on, we'll figure out a good visit schedule. The nice things about visits is that they are very intense and you are so focused on one another in a way that you aren't when you are living close together and just going through life as normal, so it is a new kind of something special, as I am sure you will discover.
Anyway, let me know whe we can webcam!
Love,
Nanny
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