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Update on our venture
Topic Started: Sep 8 2012, 01:19 PM (7,387 Views)
Indy
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:hug: :hug: So sorry to hear about your grandma!
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Oh Flash, so sorry about your grandmother. She has given you permission to begin the next chapter of your life. She'll be helping get everything worked out and will be watching from above.
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FG, so sorry to hear about your grandmother, and I completely understand how wonderful it was to be so close to her with your young kids. It is time for a new chapter, no doubt, and I bet your grandmother would completely support it.
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I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother. It was so wonderful for you and your family to be there for her the last two years.

I know you're scared about the enormity of the camp project, but you are planning, analyzing, and preparing the right way. It would worry me if you weren't worried about taking this on. I think you need to start on website design, and marketing now, because the camp season will start before you know it. Will you be able to hire experience staff and counselors? That might be the biggest roadblock.
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So sorry about your grandmother - but how wonderful that you were able to be so close for the last few years, and that your kids got to know their great-grandmother. I only had one living grandparent by the time I was about 12 (crummy lifestyle choices, they weren't super young parents nor were mine) and always felt very wistful, I guess, wishing I had really gotten to know the others, never mind a great-grandparent!

Wishing y'all the absolute best of luck with all of this, so exciting.
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Just checking in to add my support. So exciting. Jingling that you can work it out. sad news on Grandma. Hugs for that! Keep up the good work. I thought of Kena's book. Growing up at a horsecmp! Just imagine the adventures she wold have to write about. Just saying!
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I'm so sorry about your grandmother :hug:

So many life changes - exciting and scary all at the same time....
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So sorry about your grandma...but I have every confidence she will be holding your hand through every step of this exciting new venture.

One word of advice - you have a LOT of changes coming up, topped off with mourning. Take time for yourself, because you WILL get overwhelmed at times. Even if it means a 20 minute bubble bath, lock the door and blank out.
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:( So sorry, FG. :hug:
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I'm sorry about your grandmother, Flashy. What a blessing to both of your lives that you got to be with her in the final years. :hug:

And I'm sure she is giving her blessing to you and Mr. Flashy to move on and live your dream! Sounds like things are coming along fabulously!!! :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:
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Thanks guys. She was 90, she had 4 kids, 10 grandkids, 14 great grandchildren. She was loved by literally everyone who ever met her.... she was amazing. She overcame so much and was so tough but still had such a softness about her, and just so much grace.

As my dad said, it is the natural progression of life... it is still hard though. I love her dearly, as do my kids. I guess that is what we will carry with us, along with all the things she exemplified.

Working on our camp stuff tonight, it's a good distraction. I think we will try to make a formal offer at the end of the week.



Edited by FlashGordon, Sep 9 2012, 05:47 PM.
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Sep 9 2012, 12:24 PM
So sorry about your grandma...but I have every confidence she will be holding your hand through every step of this exciting new venture.

One word of advice - you have a LOT of changes coming up, topped off with mourning. Take time for yourself, because you WILL get overwhelmed at times. Even if it means a 20 minute bubble bath, lock the door and blank out.
MGP, good point, and thank you for reminding me! It's hard to take a breather sometimes. My sister gave me the name and number of her masseuse tonight so I am definitely going to give her a call...
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So sorry to hear about your loss. :( Maybe this is the time to move. One of those ending of a chapter, turning of a page kind of things. Lots and lots of hugs!
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I am so sorry to hear about your grandmother :hug: :hug: :hug: :candle: :candle: :candle:

Like some others here I really didn't know my grandparents, I'm envious that you and your children had the opportunity to know her.

Best of luck with this venture, although really you don't need luck. It seems you and Mr. FG have what it takes to make this work. You are carefully planning and moving ahead, your nervousness is to be expected, this is a huge deal but such an awesome direction :clap: :clap:
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