Seeing parents or grandparents living in different towns, and the pandemic.

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If your parents live far away, have you seen them recently?
By the time I see mine it will have been almost a year since the last time they saw my two year old. I have tried to make it work but they are in no rush. They have been to visit other people.

Went a few days ago. It's been 5 months. Have so missed my mum.

But why haven't you been? There's nothing stopping you now!

How far is it from yours to theirs ?

I've seen mine twice since January, normally it would be more. They're not seeing other people though.

Can you travel to them or do they have to come to you? Is it so far that it's an overnight stay?

We are 4 hours away and have booked accommodation to visit next month. I have offered to meet halfway or have them here but they said there is no point as we will be visiting anyway.

I have seen mine 3 times since lockdown. They haven't seen anyone else apart from the neighbours who drop off their shopping.

I was considering a visit this week until I discovered that they're in one of the potential local lockdown areas.

Can you suggest meeting halfway to your parents?

Mine are both in Wales (divorced). I'm in England. Was supposed to visit them at Easter.

We're stopping at DM's for the day on the way to our holiday further west in August. We were supposed to stay with DF for a week then but we don't have a car and his shielding DP is apparently only comfortable with people who haven't used public transport visiting.

Nor seen them since Feb.
We usually go once or twice a month.

Probably won't see them until next year. I can't afford overnight accommodation and a) I wouldn't trust their hygiene anyway and b) DD wouldn't manage in a restricted place. The kids are missing them but being stoic about it.

Mine live hundreds of miles away. Saw them just before lockdown then they came to stay last week.

Mine are 4 hours away. We last saw them at Christmas when my LO was 3 months old. They don't want us to visit until there is a vaccine.

I only have DM, she lives about 250 miles away. Not seen her for almost a year, but that's pretty standard for us. She sees DB a couple of times a week as they live very close to each other.

This is quite sad for some. It's such a long time in the life of the old or young.

We saw my parents yesterday for the first time in 5 months. We went in Feb half term and should've gone at Easter.

The kids had really missed them.

PIL are 1.5 hours away, we didn't see them from February to June. We've seen them a few times since, largely cos we've had a new baby.

My parents are 2.5 hours away, we've seen them once since March, again because they came to see the baby. Might see them again this weekend but depends on my dad's health.

We'd usually see both once a month or so, we really missed them.

Seen my DM and MIL - they both live about 2 hours away but helpfully not far from each other so can be done in one weekend.

Would normally go every couple of months but hadn't seen them since January.

DM is coming to stay in a month, I can't wait