My sons are all grown up now and live inTexas but I am still a mom.  I live in a suburb of sacramento,Ca. I am common law married to David and have been with him for almost 13 years. We have no human kids together but we have 4 feline kids who are cared and loved as much or better than most of the kids on our block. We have 2 roommate and they are almost like family. I was  born in Denver,Co and went to school there too. I moved to CA with my first husband when I was 19. Both of my kids were born here. Most people are not lucky enough to have a mother in law that they actually like let alone love but I do. We don't see much of her, she lives in Utah. She has always treated me like I was one of her natural kids instead of an in law. I am retired from the nursing field after 12 years. I have COPD which prevents me from doing my job adequatly. It really still sounds very weird to me when I hear myself say that I am retired. I have one very best friend in the whole world, who lives in Nebraska. We have been BFs since high school. Thats over 32 years and over a thousand miles apart.