Rebecca 3 thank you for your suggestions, but sadly, I am almost sure anything I send does not get given to them. I sent chocolate and cards for Easter, but will never know if they received or enjoyed them. Our 10 year old GS is autistic (although it is never 'discussed' and his vocabulary is extremely limited) - so communication, even under fairly normal circumstances, was quite stunted and difficult. Our younger grandson is full of life and very funny. We last saw them for an hour in October (our quarterly allocated "time slot", as we used to call it') but things got worse with my son and his partner at Christmas. It seems they were pushing to exclude themselves from our lives completely, and it is now very doubtful we shall see or hear from them again.
I still send cards fir soecial occasions but doubt very much if they reach them. I buy identical cards and keep them here in a box, in case they come and find us when they grow up. If we are still around by then of course. No guarantees in this life. I put money into an account I have for them. My daughter has also been excluded from their lives, so we have set up an email account for them, and we write them messages on there. We shall give them the password if we see them when they are adults and they can then read a lifetime of messages from us.
In the meantime I just die a little inside every time I hear someone say how they desperately miss their grandchildren through these difficult circumstances. I do understand, but for the first time ever perhaps people can feel true empathy with us. For many, many of us grandparents, the heartache won't end, post Covid-19....often through no fault of our own.
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