How are you staying in touch with family?

Hi my grandson lives
local but I don’t see him when I facetime the tv is on the background he’s only two years old so with dugey on I can’t win . I tried suggesting it to his parents downloading an app on iPad with books and games on it they said I said I’d pay for every thing on it. It’s so heart breaking I miss him so much .

I loved the knitted grandparents in the link. As I've taught myself to crochet I made the DGC blankets and the youngest said "when I miss you I can cuddle my blanket and think of you, Granny".
DGD set up the WhatsApp group and we have Zoomed a few of times too.

I keep in touch mainly with WhatsApp. A great means of communication. Lots of photographs exchanged on a regular basis. Also have catch up chats from time to time. I'm 20 miles from my family bubble but they are NHS and in contact with Covid patients, so I no longer meet up with them. Thankfully Covid numbers are going down and spring is on the way. There's hope now.

My DS and his family live just a 5 minute walk away and as I'm in their bubble, I'm lucky enough to see them most days. But during the lockdown #1, and before bubbles were formed, it was Watsapp video calls or they would all come up and play in my garden each weekend whilst I watched from the upstairs window.

Having a particularly bad day, today. DD and I are OK chatting on zoom but DGS isn't as interested. I waited so long for a GC and find it hard to cope being so far away from them (at times, sometimes I am able to distract myself).

I’m lucky enough to be able to see my grandson when I walk with my DD2 as they live local. He’s only 3 so doesn’t understand why he can’t come to my house, or have cuddles
I am really missing the rest of the family and it’s been awful not being able to see my Mum especially as we sadly lost my Dad towards the end of last lockdown
I drop shopping off but it’s not the same.
BUT, WhatsApp, Facetime and Zoom have been our lifeline. Thank goodness for modern technology!

We have a FaceTime call with my son, DiL and their children every Friday evening. Sometimes we end up talking to their sofa. Their son rarely appears but the two girls always make an appearance. The 9 year old used to sit there for the whole call but now is there at the beginning and then says ‘can i go back to my game’ after 10 minutes. She does WhatsAp me though as we both paint. The reason it is on a Friday is so that we can celebrate the start of Shabbat together .

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FaceTime is my favourite way of seeing and speaking to my grown up children , grandchildren and friends. It can be such fun. Also family quizzes and dinner parties are hilarious on zoom.

I have purchased 2 Amazon Echo Show for my place and my son's. That way I can watch my new GS (4 months) on his play mat and chat to his mum. Expensive but for me it's worth it, because it is much easier than the phone and it is introducing me to his life as I will be minding him when his mum goes back to work.

I, like many and because of distance, can only contact my children/grandchildren through What's App/Facetime. Because of COVID I haven't seen my daughter for 13 months, having met my new granddaughter who is now 9 months and don't know when I will.

Baggs we are almost exactly the same... I don't Zoom with my siblings, we send WhatsApp audio messages back and forth.

Long aimless phone calls when people chunter on give me the heebie jeebies.

I just sent off a postcard to my grandson having used one of his drawings for the front picture, all done online. Sometimes technology is pret-ty cool.

Zoom fortnightly with my siblings; whatsapp whenever with my offspring; postcards and cookie parcels with my grandkids.

We all hate phone calls except for "messages of purpose", to paraphrase what an Amish woman once said.

When it was the first lockdown I would FaceTime my grandchildren with a pretend virtual shop where I placed certain things in their sight for them to buy for example I would have chocolate biscuits for sale. I would tell them the cost and help them to do some mental arithmetic. We had great fun. Now I’ve got an app called Caribu where I can play interactive games. It too is great fun. Technology is brilliant

I prepare their supper twice a week and provide a Nana Deliveroo service.. dropped at the doorstep. This way they engage with me about what they might like via WhatsApp. I send a daily message too
a DGC WhattsApp group. Aged 8 - 15

FaceTime with little ones (5 and 8) about 3 nights a week - to hear them read / help with schoolwork or just chat. WhatsApp the teenage grandchildren, daughters, etc. Send postcards or little presents through the post sometimes. Wish it was all over!

WhatsApp and phone calls.
Not the same as face to face though.

WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Zoom, Teams for one member who uses it for work so doesn’t see the need to change, FaceTime, Phone family members on the frontline often use hands free to call on the journey to or from work to either vent their feelings or share news.
One DGD uses FaceTime to instruct me in application of make up! Younger ones WhatsApp me to help with maths or challenge me with drawing challenges.
Different DGS use videocalls to show me their dance skills, question my knowledge of history or share information about their latest focus. We use EdPlace to set and assess work.

We haven’t seen our daughter and Grandchildren for over a year, so we use Whereby for online chats and video chats, we also use it for a wider family evening once a month when we have a family quiz, next one is next week.

Between video chats we are sending old postcards to each other through the post, usually ones bought when we were on holidays years ago when it was expensive to buy film and then get photos developed, way before mobile phones.

I see my daughter and the grandchildren every week as I pick up grandaughters maths homework from her school. Don't ask why it's only the maths, nobody knows.
We phone several times during the week. I sometimes phone the grandchildren to educate them into how to have a proper telephone conversation I tell them why I'm doing it but they find it funny.

Online messages, Facetime calls, I send cards with photographs of me and DGS on them, yes, far far too many gifts. GS thinks he is getting something from Gaga everytime the postman walks past now, so I have had to rein that in a bit!

My grandchildren have made videos of them doing two Joe Wickes exercise videos to motivate me to do these exercises daily. The chit chat and cries of “you can you do it grandma” makes me laugh and we now find each exercise video seems to last a much shorter time.

Phone calls every couple of days, WhatsApp, e mails sending each other little gifts like food hampers from M & S, flowers and in one case chocolate brazils as I had said I had a fancy for them.