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I'm 59 as is my wife. We met in second grade. Spent the middle 35 years married to the wrong people.

My stepkids (her children) approached us over the holidays with a plan to buy a house in California that has a cottage out back. It was going to be for us.

I bust out laughing, I know, wrong response. We bought a 40' diesel pusher (my 7th motorhome, her third), successfully escaped California back before the current exodus, and are almost upon our second retirement, looking forward to becoming snowbirds. Our plans have always included lots (sometimes 3 weeks straight every three months) of time with the grandkids. I asked my other half if this plan of theirs was because perhaps she had telegraphed a hesitation on her part towards our 'plans', but she claims our 'plans' are more her idea than mine. She has never travelled, I retired from doing nothing BUT travel.

After the thought sank in, I realize now that their motive was genuinely altruistic. They know we love being around the grandkids, and vice-versa, but we both do have limits. (Best day? The day they arrive. The day they leave.)

We leave for Oshkosh mid July in the Motorhome.