Wow.. this has been a long journey for you, and I know it had a lot of ups and downs (mostly downs). I hope that this final part of the journey goes by quickly and quietly.

It's a lesson for we parents to do whatever we can to make it easy on our kids, even if that includes dying broke, like my mother did.

ETA: I do think about the fact that I am so hell-bent on passing along our house to all 4 kids, but then I think about all the possibilities for discord... what if someone wants to cash out. What if two want to add a screened porch and two don't? All those kinds of things, which again, makes me feel that my mother having to sell my great-aunt's beach cottage was a blessing in disguise, althought I certainly couldnl't see that then.