It figures
Kate is getting to know my parents and is having a lot of fun with them. She has greatly reduced the crying when she is alone with them and doesn’t even freak out when she sees me walk out of the room. Today I came home from a dinner to find her watching some videos on youtube with my mom, and when she saw me there was no major event. It was more like, “oh, hey mama. Just chillin with nana here.” Freakin amazing.
And of course we leave in 2 days.
I am so torn this year. Part of me just wants to go home and get Kate back into our routine, back to feeling less stressed and wrung out. But, as usual, part of me is so utterly sad to leave. I love my family. There is nothing like sitting in a room with them, talking and laughing and just being together. And now seeing Kate get to know them, watching them blow raspberries at her and walk her around… watching them fall in love with her. It’s just not easy to leave, knowing it will be a long time before she will see them again.
Family is so important, and nothing makes you as aware of that as a child.
It must be hard to live so far from them. How often do you get to go home? I wasn’t close to my grandparents growing up (saw them a few times a year). My son sees his grandparents once or twice a week, and I love seeing the relationship between them.
*hugs* I go through the same thing every time I see my parents too.
Depending on how tech savvy your parents are or want to be and how good of a net connection they have try weekly web cam calls with them.
I know my parents appreciate our weekly calls and the girls absolutely adore getting on the computer and talking to Grandma and Grandpa for an hour so a week.
My brother, his wife and their daughter do the same thing cause they live far away too.
It really is something great, this way Kate gets to know her grandparents in Canada and they get to see Kate grow up. It’s not the same as sitting down with them once a week and playing but really my girls see more of my parents than they do Shea’s and they live 30 mins away.