I read a blog on the subject of Grandparents today that was very sad. It is from an author I follow that I found through my part time job at the speakers bureau. Michelle lives in Green Bay, WI. She has written a number of books on parenting & pregnancy and a memoir, “Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (With Kids) in America,” - as well as articles on attachment parenting, gardening, raising teens, simple living, eating well, living cheap, homelessness and poverty, etc.
Her recent blog on absentee Grandparenting had me recalling some things in my own young mother experience, as well as thinking over my present, long-distance situation. Here is her blog if you'd like to read it: Organically Inclined
Being a long distance Grandparent is very difficult. I think because my own mother was always so far away, I didn't contemplate my own ramifications of distance. Thankfully, I was able to attend the baby shower, come about 10 days after her birth, see the baptism, and I just spent 9 days there in June. We hope to get out in October again, for a friend's wedding and to see our Grand-daughter. I am also a very poor absentee-Aunt - it is my supreme wish that my full-time career change will net the travel funds I need to be a present relative! The following is a short slideshow of birth to now. Enjoy!
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