03-20-2025, 09:08 PM
It's great that it sold! Our daughter had a real connection with my in-laws, as well.
My in-laws moved to Thomson, GA (a bit over 100 miles east of Atlanta) from Wisconsin back in 1986 just after our kid--their first grandchild--was born. He was a shop teacher in WI and got cancer, retired and planned to die. But he lived! So, they moved to Thomson to start his teaching career again. We were there pretty regularly, driving 150 miles and through Atlanta to their place. Our daughter demanded to "Go see grandma and grandpa!" pretty regularly. They lived there for 10 years for him to get vested in Teacher's Retirement then he retired again and they moved back to WI. Where she lived for another 25 years and he another 30 years. And our trips to see them became 800 miles each way!
Thomson was a pretty sad area when they were there. They did (do?) have a lot of camelias in the town and they're pretty. There's a county museum there that's fine. But, that's about all, it seems to me. We haven't been back since they moved.
My in-laws moved to Thomson, GA (a bit over 100 miles east of Atlanta) from Wisconsin back in 1986 just after our kid--their first grandchild--was born. He was a shop teacher in WI and got cancer, retired and planned to die. But he lived! So, they moved to Thomson to start his teaching career again. We were there pretty regularly, driving 150 miles and through Atlanta to their place. Our daughter demanded to "Go see grandma and grandpa!" pretty regularly. They lived there for 10 years for him to get vested in Teacher's Retirement then he retired again and they moved back to WI. Where she lived for another 25 years and he another 30 years. And our trips to see them became 800 miles each way!
Thomson was a pretty sad area when they were there. They did (do?) have a lot of camelias in the town and they're pretty. There's a county museum there that's fine. But, that's about all, it seems to me. We haven't been back since they moved.