When you have children for the first time, many people with good intentions (or hangers) will tell you, “The days are long but the years are short.” What no one tells you is that this also applies to our parents.
As part of the generation of sandwiches that raise young children while we also see the age of our fathers and all the climbing and downs that accompany this, this old saying is now striking strongly.
Both my father and my husband are now in the 1980s, while our younger child is 6 years. When we were in the midst of the new paternity and try to know how to reconcile two full -time functions with daily care and daily life, and everything between them, consider trying to plan to spend a multi -generational holiday frankly.
Certainly, there were trips on the small weekend here and there, but when it became clear that our parents were progressing, we started wondering about the experiences of the bulldozers that they always wanted to do with their grandchildren that everyone continued to postpone year after year because life is always very busy and time very quickly.
We planned for a multi -generations trip
We have taken a minor from it that our fathers were relatively healthy, mobile and active. As a person who lost my mother at the age of twenty -nine years old, I always realized that life is short and we should take our chances during ability. Even with this knowledge, the years flew.
For Abi, the dream of the bulldozers that he always talked about took all his children and his grandchildren to South Korea, where he was born, and we gave the remaining aunts and uncles from his eight siblings who never met, along with a specific request to rent traditional Korean clothes (Hananox).
It has already been over 80 years old, and this means that you never know whether there will be bad fall or serious health problems at any specific moment. Basically, it was the time to go yesterday, so after chatting with my younger brothers, we moved.
I am grateful because we achieved that
During planning a multi -generation trip, it includes five adults with their own tables and three young children for another country that is not easy, we were able to achieve this – and I am grateful forever.
One of the main challenges was to find places to survive allowing the space to everyone and thanks to a stunning Korean house, called a HanukMy brother found on Airbnb and other spacious Airbnb multi -room devices, we were able to be together but we still have some space to spread, which I would like to claim necessary with a trip with many family members. I will never forget to meet the aunts and uncles for the first time and my children will talk about all the things we did with their grandfather and their uncles and beg to return.
While the trip was now more than a year ago, my father is still chanting it. I made him a book of pictures to remember the journey and not everything we did or delicious food. It was the time he spent together.
We did the same thing for my husband my husband
Quickly forward after a year and we managed to take the other parents’ dreams with their grandchildren. My mother -in -law is lifelong equestrian and often wanted to ride a path with all family members on a farm. At that time, many grandchildren were very young, but last year it looked like the perfect time.
We went to the wonderful Alisal farm in Santa Yenz on an unforgettable trip for girls, from grandmother to six years old. It was clear that it was a dedicated property to reunite family and multi -generational holidays. The cabin where we stayed a smart bed Murphy had a bed, sofa bed and a wide bedroom for a comfortable rest.
It was a slower pace than the journey that attracted young and old. He sits on the balcony that you see the horses that are exposed to while the sunset will always be highlighting, as well as the friendly goats in the barn, the children have day after day to pets.
Eating each meal together and raising it mainly is what any really wanted, and we had this in the gardeni. The journey was crowned on a wonderful morning horse’s journey to the “shepherd breakfast” (the youngest and went in a car instead).
The comprehensive nature of property has made a very easy layout process, and everyone had to do what they wanted, whether it is running around the wide grass, making the letter in the children’s art room, or playing Ping-Pong and S’Mores roasting with the grandmother.
If you are like me and you are sitting wondering when you make a special trip with grandparents, then the answer is now. None of us gets younger, a valuable window when everyone is in good health enough, and children are ready and able, and you have the opportunity to achieve craft dreams.
There will be no perfect time that should not be arranged work activities or extracurricular activities but trust me, this is not something that you will regret at all.
