New school term, risks for grandparents

We shall be picking up the five year old GC from school twice a week and will have the seven month old sibling all day on those days.

Don’t know what to say really.
We’ve been seeing ours (5, 4, and a baby) about once every 10 days for the past couple of months. The two elder will be back at school/pre school in early September and we’ll almost certainly go on seeing them.

My own feeling is that this horrible thing could be with us for a long time before there’s a vaccine (if there ever is) and we just have to learn to live with it. Having said that, apart from our ages, dh and I don’t have any particular health problems to make it even riskier.

Of course if there’s a huge spike in infection rates, like at the beginning of lockdown, we might well think again.

My GC live 200 miles away & they came for a visit last week & we’re going to theirs next week for a few days.
Sadly we’ve had to accept that once they go back to school that won’t be possible.
DD is thinking she might keep them off school for the last week of term so they can quarantine for 10 days & then we can visit them during the Christmas holidays.

But things may be very different by then, we just don’t know. We might be in the middle of a really bad second wave, or there might have been just a few clusters.

Both our DGs are back at school now which means they can no longer come into our house and we can only have garden visits again. At least it’s still possible to see them during summer months but I don’t even want to think about the likelihood of not seeing them at all when the clocks change and it is too cold and dark for garden visits.

Normally we see them regularly during the week occasional school pick ups and love having them for overnight stays but none of this has been possible since March?

Our bubble has been burst too. Well put Marydoll

I was shielding and my DDG was in our very small bubble.
Our son will not allow us to pick her up from school ,due to the free for all at the school gate and total lack of social distancing.
Our bubble has literally burst!. ?