I live 280 miles away from my only grandchild.
I have friends whose grandchildren live in Australia, so I think I'm lucky compared to them, but compared to my friends whose grandchildren live close by, I'm not so lucky. That;s how I feel anyway.
I see my family at intervals of between one and two months. When we visit each other we usually stay for at least 3 days. We also meet up on holidays, so I guess that I do get to see a lot of the little one. Maybe, as we spend whole days together and we stay overnight together I might see more of my grandson than someone living close by who just pops round at frequent intervals for a short time?
I guess for most grandparents the proximity of the grandchildren is out of their hands.
We work with what we have.
We just love being grandparents. Is the much overused phrase about how it's "lovely to have them but lovely to give them back" true? Probably, as the idea of revisiting full time child care all over again (at my mature age) is not appealing.
Any comments?
We live in the same city as our two grandsons, but our youngest granddaughter is about 120 mile away. We are very Lucky, as we see them often, I spend as much time as I can with our grandchildren, as they are the light of my life.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your message. You are indeed lucky!
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