Gosh, you all are the best! Thanks so much for all your responses, I'm looking forward to knowing all of you better.

Well I hafta say, I'm a little jealous of you that have grandkids; it's weird because lately I've been having these dreams about babies (not ME, of course, oh,heavens, THAT would be a shock!). But, I can definitely picture myself as a grandma, even though my kids (24 & 21) are still a ways away from that. My daughter has a serious boyfriend, but she's still in college and he's away on a mission. One of my friends at work just had her first grandchild, and she told me that she can't even describe the love she feels for that little one, it's different, she said, than anything she's felt before.

Anyway, as to our house, we aren't near the ferry in terms of being able to see it, but are close enough to hear it. I'm so glad to know there are other Washingtonians on this forum, and I look forward to knowing you better.

Someone asked if we'd been back East -- many times. My husband's from Lowell, Mass; and we've been back quite often to visit his family. We usually have gone in the summer and stayed in New Hampshire at Hampton Beach. I love the ocean back there; out here in the Pacific Northwest we're on an inland Sound, and the beaches are, well, not so much beaches as piles of rock and seaweed!

Oh, and I guess I better fess up with my age, 53. I laughed when I read some of your comments about age not being a big thing. I grieved when I turned 50! It was so bad that I stopped going to the health club, because the treadmills make you put in your age, and I just couldn't do it! How's that for dumb! I'm better now (but I still don't go to the healthclub!)