Well, it seems like ever since the year 2000 hit it has been one event after the other. It seems like this decade is flying by for me. TJ and I married in November 2000. The next month (Dec. 2000) Michael was diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease (cancer). He fought for two years and passed on Dec. 30th 2002. After that I was pretty much lost. At that time Adrian had turned 2 years old and Anthony was 8 years old. Even with my grandchildren I could not manage to find peace. I was tired of National City and everything in it. We decided to move out of state and chose Utah. We flew to Utah in the summer of 2004 and purchased a beautiful home in a rural town called Herriman, Utah. We sold our house Oct, 2004 and Tj & I moved to a Motorhome at the KOA Campgrounds in Chula Vista for almost a year.I still continued to work at Childrens Hospital in Kearny Mesa while living in the motorhome. That was challenge, but in a way thats what I needed, something different. So about June 1, 2005 we arrived in Utah with all our stuff.
I would end up being there for 1 1/2 years by myself with occasional monthly visits before Tj finally stopped working in San Diego and moved to Utah. Actually it was such a pretty state with the mountains and the snow, I never felt alone. So after Tj arrived in Dec. 2006 he tried to get his Lumber Sales going like he did in San Diego. I ran Becky's Daycare in our basement, which was huge, it was like an apartment with a full kitchen downstairs. It was great interacting with the kids and staying home on snowy days. But Tj's Sales were not doing as good as he hoped and he had to keep flying back to San Diego. I started missing the little ones alot, they grow so fast.
So with 2007, came some new decisions to move back to CA. We knew we did not want to move back to National City though. We agreed on Riverside, CA because of the affordable home prices.
We chose a home in Hemet, CA. We moved back to CA almost 2 years to the day we left, May 30th, 2007. We like our home in Hemet, it gets pretty hot in the summer but we put in a pool.
And the grandkids visit more now.
