GETTING to KNOW YOU

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One of the positive sides of returning home is being able to spend more time with family and to be around to help out with grandchildren. Sometimes for an hour or so, an overnight or like last week having Daisy and Archie here for a few days over their half term allowing Jill to carry on working.

It is very different now we are home. The relationship has changed slightly. No longer do we arrive with suitcases full of gifts and whip the children into a frenzy for a few days before heading off again. I always hated the leaving!  Now we have to have a more balanced relationship and find each other’s
boundaries, likes, dislikes and little foibles.😀

Trip to Trampoline Park. 


We really are getting to know each other much better. We have to learn where we fit into their lives on a permanent basis. Been ups and downs, but getting there, and we still have a lot of fun together.

Daisy loves cooking with me, and I love teaching her, Archie too, but sometimes the draw of iPad is too great, and that’s ok too. We have to realise this is what kids do now and as long as it’s not all they do then there’s no problem.They need their space.  I love how Daisy likes to sit and watch what we have made as it cooks in the oven. Not sure she quite trusts my cooking skills yet and feels the need to keep an eye on things 😂. Thankfully Brownies turned out perfectly and warm with ice cream went down very well as dessert that night, and the next!


She is a great helper around the house. Especially in the kitchen. 

We had a slight issue at breakfast one morning. An issue that the United Nations would have been pushed to resolve. It involved the process of cereal and berries. Now, we put our berries on our cereal, No question, that’s what we do. However who knew this was a crime of the highest order ending in breakfast warfare 😂
So now I know, and going forward it will never be an issue again. Cereal in one bowl berries in another = peaceful breakfast. Simple resolution. Another step forward in building our “new relationship” together. 

What I love is when the 3 younger grandchildren are here together. Oliver just loves when Daisy and Archie are here with him. They are all full of fun and nonsense, and we feel very lucky indeed to have them, and to now being able to spend more time together doing all the things we’ve missed out on being overseas. We are very proud of them  and of all their achievements. 


I look forward to continuing to have fun and to finding out more and more about them.  They are all individuals with their own likes, dislikes and personalities and I love watching these little people growing up into happy, strong individuals. All very different and all very loveable. 

Our grandchildren are the future generation and we owe it to them all to pass on all our knowledge and experience while at the same time listening and learning from them. They have a lot to teach us too. 

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