Retirement

I've been thinking more and more about retiring.  There so much going on in my kids' lives that I feel I need to be around them to help them and that's hard to do from across the country.  However, they also still need ocassional financial support from me and that would not be possible if I retired.  So, I'm in somewhat of a pickle.  Yes, I know that I should just let them be on their own.  No one helped me.  In fact I knew that there was no one around that could help me and that made me ensure that I could take care of myself.  Be that as it may, I want to be there for them.  However, before I can retire, I've got to figure out what to do with the house here in Virginia and how to transition from here to California (if that's indeed where we want to go).  All of this would be a lot easier if I knew that all my kids were settled into their lives, that is, that they each had solid career paths and their own families.  I guess until that happens I continue to work and to worry.