Eating dinner "with" the grandkids

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For the past few weeks, I have been doing Facetime once a week with grandkids. I feel like I know them better now than when I was visiting in person, because that only happened about once every six weeks. The two-year-old turned from a toddler into a little girl during this past week-- her face looks so grown up now, and she is talking a lot and making sense instead of babbling only. Pretty cool. Anyway, today I timed my call for 5:30 so I could "virtually babysit" while my daughter made dinner. It didn't work so well because they were actually helping her get dinner, but when everyone sat down to eat, she put the phone on a stand on the table. I said, "Oh, let's eat together." I warmed up my stew (that I made yesterday) and we talked as we ate. It was fun! Also the four-year-old has learned to use chopsticks fairly neatly. I'm impressed. She ate her whole dinner (rice, broccoli, cauliflower, tuna salad) with chopsticks. It's fun to have virtual dinner together! How are you staying close to family this week? (I think I asked the same question a couple weeks ago... sorry!)