Grandchildren

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My sister and friends all have children and grandchildren living within an hour's travel so can easily see them for lunch or the afternoon. However I have one daughter living in France and the other 300 miles away which means a 3-4 hour drive / train journey (plus expense) so I can only see my grandchildren every two or three months - the French ones even less. What doesn't help is that I'm in my early 70s and although I'm fit and healthy now, have no idea how long that will continue. I know I'm very lucky to have children and grandchildren but even so, I can't help feeling insanely jealous of those who have them living locally. Any thoughts to help me put a positive spin on this? Thank you

Sorry that you can't see them more often, it must be hard. Do they come and visit you too? If you could take it in turns visiting each other it could make the visits not as far apart?

One of my kids nans live 5 minutes away but the other one lives at the other end of the country. We can't always visit but we try and go up there a few times and shel come to us too.

That’s really tough. Can you write to each other and send parcels? It’s fun getting post as a child.

It's tough . Video calling is great sometimes it's just 3 minutes of looking into each others eyes and winking. But it's daft it's fun and makes him laugh .I've started sending postcards and daft letters . We now book locally and cover some of the school holidays .
I'm just trying to accept it's a different relationship to the nearer grandparents but still has a lot of value to us all .
Good luck

Thanks - I'm hoping that less frequent but longer but stays means we'll get to know them in a slightly different way! Absence making the heart grow stronger and all that. :)