I have a dilemma

Before I go on, if anyone wants to email me, don’t use my gmail address, use the one in the sidebar instead. I’m using that for personal emails, and stuff from this blog because my Gmail account is getting rather spammy, plus, because I hadn’t checked it for ages, it’s completely chocka-block and I can’t find a thing. If you have emailed me there, try the other, you will receive a reply a lot sooner. This especially true now that I have got around to installing Thunderbird, so have actually checked what mail I have.

OK, and now I would like your input on this: During my absence from blogging, one of the things that was/is bothering me was a pronounced sense of home sickness. Rather late in the day, when you consider that I have lived in Yorkshire for 20 years. It’s not that I don’t like it up here, I do, but I feel I have been here for long enough, and now, I would really like to go back home. I discussed this with Mr Blogs last night, and he agrees with me, and would like to move down to Warwickshire (or that area). He lived in Wiltshire for years and still has a soft spot for that part of the country.

The potential problem could be my in-laws. The reason we moved to this village in the first place is that they are both getting on in years (mid 70s) and Mr Blogs wanted to be near them. Plus, they did exert a certain amount of pressure to persuade us to relocate. I don’t blame them, and it’s not as if they did it in an unpleasant way, after all it’s only natural that they would want their family near by. However, the last few months have been difficult and it would have been a great help to have had my family and oldest friends a bit closer.

Anyhow, we came to the decision that we aren’t going to head south asap, mainly because the Bloglets are still at school/college so it would be unfair to disrupt them. However, once Number Five Son leaves school in two years time, we could move, and hope to do so. The problem is, how do we break it to my MIL and FIL without them feeling that we abandoning them (we aren’t, my BIL lives here and they have a large extended family, and it’s not as if we would be that far away) or that we are hoping they will hurry up and shuffle of this mortal coil so that we can go elsewhere.

Any thoughts/suggestions will be appreciated.