We are lucky to have such good relationships with our oldest grandchildren

• I have always had a good relationship with our grandchildren.
• We see them at least once a year and continue to spend time outdoors and write together.
• They are 19 and 21, and we feel lucky because despite their ages, they still want to spend time with us.

One afternoon a few months ago The 19 -year -old grandsonRiley, and I was deep in my parents’ paper game teaching SIBS when we were children. I learned this to Riley and his 21 -year -old brother, Cullen, just one year ago, but now I have faced an opponent who deserved and had to strateically put a strategic position for each step. However, he caught me a mistake. Within minutes, the game had ended.

“This is not fair!” I cry. “I was playing this whole life, and I just learned!” Ignore indifferently. “Maybe the next time I must allow you to win.” “Don’t dare to give up on me!” I said.

We were in White Rock, British Columbia, a Canadian coastal town, a few miles north of the American border and about an hour from the home of our grandchildren. They live more than 1100 miles from us near Vancouver, British ColombiaAnd where my husband and I met Barry, while we divide our lives between Urika, California, Gangato, Mexico.

Even with the distance between us, we can spend time together once or twice a year, and we always enjoy each other’s company (unless, of course, they hit us in paper games!).

We are doing a variety of things together

Play card games with Cullen and Riley is just one of the activities that we enjoy when we are all together. Over the past eight years, our pattern has been to rent Airbnb within an hour or two of their home, either in BC or in northwest Washington. During the next two days, we spend our time walking, go out for lunch, play cutthroat games, write together on a common topic, read what we have written, and more.

Because I loved cooking, when we started making these visits for the first time, I assumed that I would intend dinner to all of us. Ha! I didn’t know a little. They were teenagers with adolescent tastes – far from Barry and my Meat preferences. So I gave up that, and we usually buy pizza.

We do different things in different locations. For several years, I and Barry were renting Airbnb in Bellingham, Washington, where we used to live and are still friends. During one of the residence, we realized that the children never did so Use public transportation before. It’s time for buses to be presented! We took a bus in the city near the rental to Viravin, a historical area at the other end of the city, where we visited a bookstore, wandered around the Amtrak station and the stage of the ferries, and we had lunch. Then we took the bus again.

At other times, we played my sparse, walking long, and we enjoyed with a Barry drone, and we saw Colin (who in his high school years rivally). We spend a lot of time outside because, as Riley said, “O comrades like nature.” His comment made me laugh. Is it strange to love nature?

We share what we feel through writing

Writing together is a real treatment. Some of our claims were: “What I will remember on this visit”, “My favorite place that we remained”, “My opinion is in the last movie I saw” and “What I plan in 2023”. Initially, Barry or Barry offered the claim, but now our grandchildren also make them.

In the second morning of our stay, Barry Riley goes out to break breakfast (he loves colin in it), and they have an individual conversation. For example, last year, they discussed the fact that Riley was thinking about the shift from Community College To a commercial school, where he was training to become a plumber. Canada is an expensive country, like many of its peers, was exhausting the possibility of living in a high -cost environment.

A few years ago, they visited us in Mexico. We were somewhat concerned about them – mobility in immigration and customs at the massive and busy city of Mexico Airport, not to mention the shift from the international station to the local station to flying from Mexico City to Guankato, where we live part of the year. With zero language skills! They have been transferred internationally once, but with their parents. Nevertheless, we were pleased because they managed to get well, and we were happy to present them to a completely different culture from itself.

A year ago, we all wrote the claim, “None of us gets any younger!” In fact, both of them Young people now have friends. So who knows how long will our Airbnb adventures continue? But at the present time, all of us look forward to our visits together. And I couldn’t feel more. It is one thing when your 5 -year -old and 7 -year -old grandchildren enjoy, but when they are 21 and 19 years old? We are honored to enjoy hanging with us as much as we do with them.