Moving on

rtandon27

Take it easy - hope you had a good night's sleep and are feeling more rested today!

Fortune_Smiles

Grandchildren are wonderful... but exhausting 😂  My DiL would love us to move closer so that we could help out more with childcare but I'm not sure we'd survive it!

Fortune x

Cherryfudge

rtandon27 said:

Take it easy - hope you had a good night's sleep and are feeling more rested today!

Thank you! Still waking up  but today won't be quite as warm so I hope to push on and get more jam made. There's a lovely children's book by Margaret Mahy called 'Jam' in which the very-productive plum tree gives rise to so much jam that the household is overwhelmed. Though the illustrations you see everyone getting rounder and rounder, though that's never mentioned in the text. I feel we are going the same way!

I've a couple of people in mind for gage donations, so I need to organise that, too. One of them is in the group I was with last night and knows a lot about home brewing, which I've never tried as we don't have much space - but following our conversation, I very much want to try making mead.

Fortune_Smiles said:

Grandchildren are wonderful... but exhausting 😂  My DiL would love us to move closer so that we could help out more with childcare but I'm not sure we'd survive it!

Fortune x

The best reason to move closer, IMO, would be because you wanted to see more of them! We offered, so we had looked at the cost to us before letting ourselves in for it, and were clear about what was on offer (one day a week), though because I'm more available during the day, there have been times when I've done extra to look after a sick child. I'm glad of the opportunity to spend the time, but I recognise there's a cost in time and energy. Interestingly, I've read that time spent with grandchildren is beneficial for grandparents, which would be my experience (tiredness but healthy tiredness, due to healthy physical activity, stimulation, being needed, cuddles with the children etc.).

Today DH has the day off and is on the phone to his sister, who is recovering from an op. I have some housework things to do, and I want to sort out some things for the children's group over the autumn - and make jam. There are plants to water and food to sort out too.

Spending over the last couple of days:
Housekeeping 34.11
Gifts/postage 51.43 (£20.89 due to be refunded)
Gifts bought on behalf of DS of which some will be returned and some he will pay back £83.45

PS. remembered to cancel my Pr1me membership before they start to charge me at full rate!

Fortune_Smiles

Fortune_Smiles said:

Grandchildren are wonderful... but exhausting 😂  My DiL would love us to move closer so that we could help out more with childcare but I'm not sure we'd survive it!

Fortune x

The best reason to move closer, IMO, would be because you wanted to see more of them! We offered, so we had looked at the cost to us before letting ourselves in for it, and were clear about what was on offer (one day a week), though because I'm more available during the day, there have been times when I've done extra to look after a sick child. I'm glad of the opportunity to spend the time, but I recognise there's a cost in time and energy. Interestingly, I've read that time spent with grandchildren is beneficial for grandparents, which would be my experience (tiredness but healthy tiredness, due to healthy physical activity, stimulation, being needed, cuddles with the children etc.).

One day-ish a week would be perfect Cherry but I think DiL has full time in mind 😲

rtandon27

Ouch @Fortune_Smiles - definitely set your boundaries early - children often forget that their parents have lives too!

@Cherryfudge - when you talk about the children's group, it makes me think of an lovely older couple at our Church, they don't have grandbabes of their own yet, so actively volunteer to look after the pre-schoolers during service - they love every minute of it & all the cuddles that go with it!  Listening to them tell Old Testament stories is fun on it's own, they are born story-tellers, though sometimes I think they make some of it up as they go along!