butty, you will have a glorious time and be a fabulous gran. Your son and DiL clearly think so too
jess, I like your list. It's a useful way of looking at relationships. I feel extremely fortunate to be in the first category and also fortunate not to feel pushed out in the least by the lovely and healthy relationship my daughter and son-in-law have with his parents who see them every week or so whereas I see them maybe three times a year. In fact, I'm very pleased for my grandsons that they have this contact with their father's family because it provides them with five playmate cousins of similar ages, whereas there are no cousins yet from my side of the family.
DD1 and family will arrive later today for a visit. Just moved my harp from the room where they will sleep to give them more space. DD2 will pop over for an overnight visit later in the week laden, she says, with sausages (I've to provide the shallots to cook with them) and bubbly because she hasn't met her younger nephew yet and her big sister has just been awarded her OU honours degree after, as she put it "fourteen years, two babies and twelve house moves." MrBags, who is not DD1's father, also came home with a bottle of (VG!) bubbly on Friday, saying "It's not every day someone gets a degree." It will be a very celebratory week