HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!
I’ve been a
bit lax in getting my posts out, but we’ve been having such a good time with
the kids and grandkids. This morning
they all took off to get back home.
Right now we
are back in Jacksonville at Rivers RV – guess what, the part for our
refrigerator is in!!!! We will be
pulling into the service area first thing in the morning hopefully to get our
fridge up and running again. It’s
raining here, so we are inside just being lazy.
We left the
Elite Resort in Clermont, FL this morning, we enjoyed our stay there.
This is
where we stayed for the week.
Since we spent all of our time at the kids’ condo, we didn’t have time to take advantage of the amenities the park had to offer. While we were here they had a breakfast, an ice cream social and a New Year’s Eve party. We found out those folks do like to celebrate New Year’s Eve – lots of fireworks and firecrackers going off in the campground. I was a little surprised that they allowed this because otherwise it is a very quiet, upscale, gated community.
On New Year’s
Eve Papaw Jack Crosley treated everyone to a wonderful meal at Johnnie’s
Hideaway in Orlando. Yesterday we all
went to the Sea Dog restaurant, the food was good but it took forever to be
served.
I just spent
some time reading through some of the blogs written by other fulltime or wanna
be fulltime RVers. It made me realize
how very lucky we are to have the support of our family to pursue this dream of
ours. When we announced to our blended
family of five children, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild, that we
were selling everything and traveling fulltime, I do think some of them were
surprised. But, once they realized we
had thought everything through I think they were as excited about it as we were. Not a one of them made us feel guilty for “leaving
them” like some of the stories I just read.
We’ve been
so blessed that all of our children have grown up into very responsible,
hard-working adults who are great parents and people in their own right. They all have their own lives and they know
that we will be there for them if they need us, but we expect and they live up
to our expectations of taking care of themselves and their families.
Modern technology
allows us to keep in touch with our kids and grandkids through Facebook, Face
time and frequent phone calls. Our blog
probably allows them to know more about what we are doing than they did when we
were home in Indiana. Our travel allows
us to spend quality time with them since they all left home and spread out from
Kansas to Washington, D.C.
Our children
have become more than the children who used to depend on us, now they have
become wonderful friends - and, we are very grateful for their support.
It sounds like things are going well for the two of you. It is always great to spend time with family - especially with all the things there are to do in Orlando. This is probably too late, but if you have the chance please tell Jack and the rest of the Crosley family that I said hello. I spent a lot of time every week in the Crosley basement with Eric and several others working on Physics lab reports when I was a senior. Ugh. Physics with Mr. Berry.
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