family meeting up together

December 3, 2010 12:42pm CST
I am so lucky that I have my 3 adult children living close by but not my Mother in law or nieces and nephews. We all keep in touch with letters, phonecalls or emails and meet one or the other but rarely everyone together. The awful thing is that we meet altogether it is for a funeral where we all say we must get together in happier times. So, this year I arranged a happy meeting at my Mother in laws - she is in sheltered accommodation and they said we could have downstairs room. (Mum in law doesnt know yet!) It is to be for the 12th of this month. All is great but then for the first year ever what happens, we have the worse weather for 100 years and it is iffy if we can all make it. I know you could say well okay have the meeting in the Spring which yes is a good idea but with my Mum in law being 98 and a half years welll we just got to hope. Anyone else find they only meet up for the bad things or are we unique!
3 responses
@shia88 (4571)
• Malaysia
4 Dec 10
Hi, Meeting up with family is always fun and that kind of feeling is so great. I always wish I can meet up with my family members more often but too bad I am not able to make it as they are so far away from me. We are living in different country. So I only got chance to meet them once a year.
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
4 Dec 10
Yes, my family is the same. A group of us live in one state, another group in another 1000 miles away and then there is me, 800 miles from one group and 1800 from the other! Trouble is, it takes money to get together and none of us has it--we keep body and soul together and pay our bills but that's about all we can manage right now. We use the phone and email to keep in touch and talk frequently. I guess if I want to see my sons 1800 miles away I will have to move back there eventually. Hope you have fun with your MIL! You're right, time is short and you should get together when you can.
@ElicBxn (63194)
• United States
3 Dec 10
My sister used to come down to see mom 3 times a year. Well, mom passed mid-November and we don't know when my sister will be back. She's been care-taking her partner's mom, but she also passed earlier this week, so now she's only care-taking our uncle (mom's brother). I honestly don't know when I'll see her again, and I expect that I will only see my brother when its time to do the taxes or when she comes again. And he lives here in TOWN!