My father - all during the phase of raising 9 children to (presumed) independence kept saying - settle coast to coast - I'm going to spend my retirement visiting from kid to kid to kid. And he and Mom have - between Elder hostels, various other trips, etc. Sometime we joke that it's the children in our family that suffer from empty nest - because the folks are never home!!!!!

We are lucky because (again due to the 9 kids and trying to schedule ANYTHING) the whole family is pretty much content to celebrate whatever whenever. A few years ago my folks decided that to be with any of their children for Christmas would be "imposing" - the result - they ended up having about a dozen "Christmas" celebrations - starting at Thanksgiving and continueing until mid february! (because each of us celebrated Christmas with them the closest to the date that we DID see them)