Toddler Goes International… Visiting with the Grandparents

Posted on January 31st, 2008

Toddler looks supremely worried to see two exuberant people with manic grins bearing down on him. It’s OK, I tell him, this is your Grandma and Granddad. They haven’t seen you for six months.
We’ve just got off the train to see my in-laws. They have come to the train station to meet us, and Toddler [...]

Toddler Goes International… Far Flung Families

Posted on January 20th, 2008

My husband and I are British, and we live in the Midwestern US with our toddler. All our families, including the in-laws, are back home in Britain, 3000 miles away. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? I’m not sure.
I have friends who’s entire family, and all the in-laws, live in a [...]