grand kids
Hello, Just curious about you grand parents. How do you cope being away from your grand kids? I dont think I could ever drag my wife very far away.
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Like Executive, we take them with us and have for over 10 years. Mostly our two granddaughters who are the first girls in our family in 40 years though we also took a grandson when he was younger. Most of the others are in Ohio.
The girls’ moved to OK many years ago but they fly into AZ and spend the summer and we travel the western national parks and mountains and camp. The DW and DIL are enamored of FL and would like to live there. The older granddaughter, now 19, refuses to go. She says no mountains in FL, she’ll go to CO. The younger one, just 16, has a boyfriend and is at that age where parents and grandparents take second place. The DW tried to bribe her to come out by offering to take her to Disneyland and SeaWorld. Her reply was not if it meant we weren’t going camping. I’m proud of both of them.:B
My DW watched the girls for years while my DIL worked so we got pretty close to them. I can’t count the trips we’ve made to OK since they moved, so yes, being away from them for long periods doesn’t work for the DW. And now the son’s wife in FL is pregnant. So I can see the handwriting on the wall, I’ll be making many long drives there. Skype works well, and hardly a day passes that they’re not in contact by phone or facebook. But the trips are inevitable.
The girls’ moved to OK many years ago but they fly into AZ and spend the summer and we travel the western national parks and mountains and camp. The DW and DIL are enamored of FL and would like to live there. The older granddaughter, now 19, refuses to go. She says no mountains in FL, she’ll go to CO. The younger one, just 16, has a boyfriend and is at that age where parents and grandparents take second place. The DW tried to bribe her to come out by offering to take her to Disneyland and SeaWorld. Her reply was not if it meant we weren’t going camping. I’m proud of both of them.:B
My DW watched the girls for years while my DIL worked so we got pretty close to them. I can’t count the trips we’ve made to OK since they moved, so yes, being away from them for long periods doesn’t work for the DW. And now the son’s wife in FL is pregnant. So I can see the handwriting on the wall, I’ll be making many long drives there. Skype works well, and hardly a day passes that they’re not in contact by phone or facebook. But the trips are inevitable.
