Maureen Keizer Fukushima:  

Miles (my husband) and I just had our 45th anniversary. We divorced our respective spouses to marry each other all those years ago. Both our ex spouses have since passed on. We're retired and are thoroughly enjoying our lives together. We have 6 children between us and we travel to see them once or twice a year. We don't travel much because we have 10 dogs (Miles hunts wild boar) and it's tough to leave them. Besides, we love being home where we're happiest. I keep busy with my miniatures (1:12 scale) and reading. Miles keeps busy doing the garden and hunting and taking care of me! Life is wonderful. Since our youngest daughter moved back home she takes good care of us. That's a good thing because she's a physician. Good thing to have a doctor in the house when you're getting along in years. She also brought her cockatoo, Tiki back home too. He's our "grand bird". We have 2 granddaughters from my oldest son who retired from the army last year and is now a Pentagon Policeman. The granddaughters are still quite young....9 & 10 We DO FaceTime them occasionally but see them at least once a year. Probably do more traveling now that our daughter moved home but still within the U.S. However, the pandemic has not allowed us to visit recently. Hopefully we can get together sometime later this year for my 75th. I'm back walking every day. Had to because I was gaining weight and that's awful. It took me a LOT of years to lose the weight. Still struggling with that....weight. My husband and I walk in the mall because it's safer for me...no uneven sidewalks to cause me to fall. But it IS dangerous in as much as I've now become a Macy's platinum member! LOL We had a family portrait taken in November but not all my children made it here. My oldest daughter was unable to come. We spent a lovely day at the Kahala Hotel. What's lovely is that we hadn't been there in over 20 years since my mother passed away. My parents always stayed at the Kahala Hilton (as it was then called). We actually saw people there who remembered my parents and me (all those years ago). My family spent a couple of hours swimming with the porpoises. So...my sister moved to Seattle from Maryland and I'm glad because she was alone there. She's my older sister and hasn't taken care of her health s...Expand for more