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[quote=Anonymous]My parents live 3 doors down. They moved here once I had children so they could know their grandkids. We see them 3x a week or so. They're really helpful. They like to babysit every Friday night. They often pick my oldest up from daycare and take her out for a special day by herself. 
My dad picks her up on Wednesdays and takes her to library story time for an hour and then drops her back off at daycare. They make dinner often and just bring it over and have it ready for when we get home from work. They can't wait for my oldest to start Kindergarten and my dad wants to be waiting outside her school every day to walk her home.

They're not pushy and are low key. I always, always tell them if it's too much. DH is really happy with it all too. His parents never visit and have never babysat or changed a diaper. We still see his parents and celebrate holidays and birthdays with them, but we only ever travel to them.

My parents take a 3 month vacation from January- April every year (to escape DC's cold winter) and we miss them a lot. My kids are usually sick the entire time and we run through most of our leave then. We miss their company a lot too, not just their help. We help them a lot too and have renovated most of their house with them. [/quote]

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