Visiting younger relative with two small children. Relative is, rightly, very focused on the children.
What I find jarring is that when I come down in the morning
- relative doesn't say good morning or ask how I slept
-relative doesn't encourage children to say hello
They just carry on chatting to the kids, who are wandering about. Their parent is not cross with me. It is just what they do/fail to do/the sort of behaviour they model.
I had a 4 hour car journey to get here, arrived with gifts, played with and looked after children yesterday and slept badly. I have to get through the next 24 hours. I shall now go back down and find stuff to make breakfast with.