Thank you for your acknowledgment of my feelings Pamela. Just for reference, we didn’t stay with my daughter for our two month visit, but stayed in a rental instead. Sadly my daughter’s marriage has broken up whilst she has been in NZ and so we found ourselves helping her to move house whilst we were there. We were packing and then unpacking got the first couple of weeks whilst the children were still at school, and then we did masses of childcare during the long summer holidays, whilst my daughter worked.
You’re right Pamela, we’re not lucky to need to travel half way round the world to visit our children and grandchildren. It’s actually the only way to see them and build/keep meaningful relationships with our grandchildren. People who think it’s all the outdoor life and barbecues are simply wrong. People in Australia and New Zealand go to work, the supermarket, clean the house, cut the grass and wash the car just like everyone else. We had two barbecues in two months, we have more than that here in England during the summer. My daughter runs, she ran in England. The children do a lot of sports, they did in England too. For my daughter, it’s about working fewer hours for the same pay. I don’t know what it is for others apart from thinking the grass is greener.
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