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[quote=Anonymous]My mother just retired at the age of 60 and when I asked her what she and my father plan to do since he's already retired, she said she wants to create a baby room in their house for my baby, who is due to arrive later this fall.  I was kinda hoping she'd say they were booking some terrific trips abroad and looking to buy a summer home in Florida but they plan to stay put and plan for the baby. I'm thrilled she's excited, but there are two things that are worrying me here. First, DH and I are planning on moving a few states away by next spring, and second, we really don't intend on spending every other weekend at my parents' house, which my mother seems to think we'll do because that's what her friend's sons and daughters with children all do (in fact, it turns out that one of her friends gave her this whole "grandma's house baby room" idea). DH and I have always been a couple who prefers to spend most of our weekends doing our own thing and I know the last thing he wants to do is spend his weekends amusing my mother. They get along fine enough but there are probably 100 other things he'd rather do than devote entire weekends to visiting my parents. And visiting them usually consists of sitting in their living room for hours waiting to go out to dinner (same restaurants we don't even like much). His parents are quite the opposite. Both are a little older than mine and retired but travel A LOT and and never bug us for more than the holidays and an occasional visit. They're not in the process of creating any baby room, either. They're happy to have another grandchild on the way, but they're also very, very busy people in their late-60s who don't expect us to give them a reason to live. [/quote]

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