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How to handle an odd situation

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Kartush Sat 05-Dec-20 07:15:21

My Son and his family live in another state from us (we are in Australia) and there are over 2500klm between us. They have not been to see us in almost 6 years although we try to go to them as often as possible, which is sometimes once a year.
My granddaughter loves to send me pictures on messenger and today she sent a picture and I admired it and then said "have you started on Christmas decorations yet, has your mam put the tree up?" to which she replied "we are coming to Queensland for Christmas" - this is the state we live in btw
I was a bit set aback, as I had not heard this. Now she could have been mistaken, she is only 9 and kids sometimes hear things differently to what they are told, but I did not want to put her on the spot so I just said " wow that sounds like fun"
Now I am a bit puzzled, are they traveling for Christmas? should I query this with my Son? should I ignore it?
My daughter in laws family also live in Queensland surely if they were spending Christmas with them they would come and visit us as well as we are only 3 hours drive from where her sister lives.
I am inclined to say nothing and just wait and see, but surely if they were planning on coming here they would have told me my now dont you think?

MamaCaz Tue 08-Dec-20 09:39:08

(Just to clarify, when I said "unless they ask you to", I meant unless DD and DiL ask you to do that.

OceanMama Tue 08-Dec-20 10:31:05

I'm so glad to hear of your happy ending. Have fun with your family when they visit.

NfkDumpling Wed 16-Dec-20 20:46:30

Thank you for the update. All is good. smile

Callistemon Wed 16-Dec-20 20:52:10

Kartush

I thought that I would just put an update on this. My son messaged me this morning and said they would be in queensland at my daughter-in-laws family for Christmas and new year but would like to come here after new years for a few days. So all is well

Wonderful!
So glad you can meet up in the new year.