Life in Cincinnati

Well here I am creating and posting on a blog. Hope everyone is doing well. Here we are just 2 1/2 weeks from Thanksgiving. 9 months since Mike and I moved to Ohio. Lets just say it is not Vt and I am having a very hard time coping with life here. I miss my home and all of my family and friends. I cannot wait to see as many of you as possible when I am home for Thanksgiving.

I am trying to be postitive but it is not easy.

So the good things about living here:

We have a great house

There is lots of shopping

There are museums, theaters and all sorts of cultural activities nearby.

The not so good things about being here:

I really hate my job and this states has the second highest rate of unemployment in the country so my attempts to find something different have not yet met with success

My house in VT has not sold so I am paying for 2 houses

Not a lot of discretionary income because of having to support 2 homes

I really really miss my grandkids

My job doesn't allow me to get away to travel back to VT

Ok so as you can see the bad outweighs the good in this case and so as soon as we are able we are planning to return to our home state. If, by some miracle, the house there sells before we are able to move back then we will just find another house back in Rutland.

So we did get to go on a vacation this fall. In fact we just returned last week from Hawaii. We were there to celebrate our 36th wedding anniversary. This was our second trip and it is really beautiful. The thing that we found the most different this trip was the number of Japanese tourists far outweighed the number of Americans on the island. We were once again on Oahu. Being there and seeing the beautiful mountains made me realize how much I miss seeing mountains each day.

Here is a picture of us on the North Shore.

I will keep you all posted of our lives here. Please keep in touch. Love you all!