My mother leaves for Florida for a month tomorrow

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My parents' best friends spent like 6 weeks in St. Petersburg last winter and loved it. I think my parents were planning to go with them this year but obviously my dad cannot do that. My mother gave up on the idea after my dad died but her best friends insisted that she join them and bought her the round-trip flight as her Christmas present. So she flies down there tomorrow. Her being gone for a month will not affect my life in any way. Despite the fact that we live within like 20 minutes of each other I really don't see her other than on holidays and birthdays. We aren't close and are very much like oil and water. We both have made an effort to communicate more regularly since Dad passed but the fact remains that we are just 2 very different people. I am curious how my sister is going to deal with her being gone for a month. Both my sister and BIL leave before 7 am to go to work. My mother has been showing up at like 6 am on each school day to watch the kids and get them off to school. In December my mother sold her house and actually moved in with my sister and her family so she became like a live-in nanny. I don't know what my sister is going to do about the kids in the morning during the week. They certainly can afford YKids but I doubt they will utilize that option. So we shall see.