My Trip to Tennessee

I have been gone for the past week or so. I took my two boys to Tennessee to see my parents and youngest brother and sister. It was beautiful (as usual) but hot and humid. We played in the Tennessee river every day but one and hung out at my parent's house otherwise. There is a school playground nearby, and we went there a few times, but that's it.
The boys had a grand time. They played in the red dirt and got incredibly dirty - always a fun thing for little boys. They played with the hose and got soaking wet. They helped in Grandmama's garden, throwing straw on the weeds and watering. They helped get water from the underground spring, carrying gallon jugs to the car, and finally filling one themselves at the end. They ran around with boundless energy, until they collapsed right about dinnertime each night. They tromped around in the river, throwing innumerable rocks and sticks in as far as they could. They met a few other children and played with them briefly. They saw a turtle swimming by and hundreds of tiny fish. They got to watch their Grandpapa skin and filet a huge catfish - it weighed more than the two of them put together!

In the end, they never wanted to leave. As I packed to go home, they pled with me to just have Daddy come to Tennessee to live, instead of us ever going home. ::Sigh:: I felt the same way. Luckily, they were happy to see their Daddy when we got home. Still, however, when Ron asks them which they "want", Daddy or the Tennessee river, they say the river, unless Ron is looking like he particularly wants them to say "Daddy". They did love the whole trip, and never once asked to come home. I loved it too. I love being near my parents. I miss them terribly. Calling them on the phone just isn't the same thing.

I'd love to move to Tennessee to live near them, but I'm not sure how Ron would like it. There would be endless opportunities to ride his dirt bike and four-wheeler, with or without the boys. But beyond that, and the beauty of the landscape, I see no reason for him to want to move there. Is it possible that he would move simply for my sake (and the boys')? I wish I knew. I wish he would.