Bad List

I guess I am on it for a few people due to a decision that I have made with the wife. We have decided to look for a place in Idaho, near Boise. We talked it over and moving to Eastern Idaho would prove to be too cold and too small for Beth to handle, so we talked it over and Caldwell area (near my brother Dan) seems more along the lines we like. It is still a 2.5 hour flight form Boise to Phoenix, and still relatively cheap with certain airlines.
I understand and appreciate the pain my wife is going through, leaving both her family and the place she grew up in. I love her so much for putting up with me and for taking care of my boy. I know that she will be a great mother no matter where we live. I also love her family for putting up with me and all the hassle I come with.
Her parents have been so loving and open armed to me and made me feel as much at home as one can. Her mother has done so much for us, she has done so much for me too. She created a scrapbook that covered the basics of my life and some parts that I had forgotten. She had gone through so much trouble to get all the info that she did for that too, I was amazed at how much it covered. She then went to the extent of making a book of my families history, something that my grandmother did on my fathers side, but not much has been done on my mothers side., but she went ahead and did it. My father-in-law is great too, he spent a whole year building our enclosure for our back porch. He used all the time that he had off to do it, he would come over early in the morning and stay late on it, even when I could not be there to help.
I guess it comes down to this, we all have something great in the family that is around us. I know how much they mean to my wife, and to me, and I do feel pain in the thought of them not being able to be so involved in my sons growth, but I feel the same when I think of my parents. I know that my parents will not be the same as Beth's, that they show their love differently, but I know that no matter what they will be there for us, both my parents and my in-laws.