When I started writing this series of reasons why living in Bear River has worked out for us, my list was short and sweet. Once I got into it and thought about it more, I realized that the list is far from over. Today I bring you an eighth reason.
#8 We love visits from our kids
By far, the hardest part about moving here was realizing that our adult children wouldn’t be living in Bear River too. I don’t think this is an issue for everyone, but separation has always been tough for me. I thought it would get easier and it has, but it will never be totally OK that they can’t just come over for supper on Sunday or we can’t just go for a coffee together. It’s not that easy for us to travel in the summer now that we are hooked into garden and summer markets, so it’s difficult and costly for us to visit them.
Larry gave us all blank canvasses for Christmas and we had a painting day together.
In spite of this, our kids have each made the trek here once or twice a year. How amazing is that? Jesse travels from Toronto and Emily has come here from Los Angeles or Vancouver or London or Granada, and now Munich. They enjoy visiting us in Bear River and understand why we are here and apparently we have inspired them to realize that we all can make choices to improve our lives. Imagine that!
Jesse paints.
Right now we are in the last few days of a wonderful visit from them. We are all together here for the first time in a couple of years. We’ve painted and watched movies and eaten way too much. We’ve talked and we’ve also had time for our own spaces too.
Together, but apart. I’m watching Upstairs, Downstairs on Netflix; Emily is buying a train ticket for Germany; Jesse is reading some of his writings and after he took the photo, Larry went out to the studio to rearrange the space.
I could write a whole other post about gratitude for Skype and online communication tools that help us to visit. But there’s nothing like the real thing. We are so lucky that they feel connected to us enough to share this time with them and lucky to be in a pretty little village with them. Thanks my dear ones.
To recap:
#5 We love the generosity of spirit.
#6 We love the spirit of the L’sitkuk Community.
#8 We love visits from our kids.
The love just shines through in this post.
Oh what a beautiful post Flora ! Happy New Year to you and may 2013 be filled with good health and much love
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Hi Flora,
Love this whole series. I am far behind on commenting. love this! Barbra