This New Year's Eve, Mr. Meno, MiniMeno, GrandmaMeno, AuntieMeno, and I will be at GrandmaMeno's house in Virginia for the last time. Soon after that she will be moving closer to us, which is a good thing, but the knowledge that that part of all our past is closing is bittersweet.
As a family, we have always been bicoastal, some of us East, and some of us West, sometimes flip-flopping, always a family reason to travel to the other coast. Over the last few years, we have all moved West, seemingly for the long haul, with GrandmaMeno the last to make the move.
I love my West Coast present and vision of the future, but I am New York City born and raised. I guess I'll have to grow up more now, and not just go places where I have family.