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[quote=Anonymous]My husband's parents are English and live in NZ, and we see them once a year at most. They are 92 and 88. 
They are extraordinary people who have travelled the world, been in the army, were born extremely poor, and lived things that are hard for me to imagine.
My kids are 4 and 8, and I don't know how much they will remember of the grandparents, or how much they will know about them.

So, I am thinking about proposing to them that they do some sort of journal, something I could buy, or something they could just write.

The thing is, I don't really know how to go about it. I am not close to them. We are always polite with each other, but I worry they could be offended, just because they are old and they will obviously not live much longer.

The reasons I would like them to do it are mostly selfish, for my kids, I think it would be nice for them to have (I don't know much about my grandparents and it is something i miss, like a small part of me is missing). I would like to think that the grand parents would like to write their story and would enjoy it, but i am not sure. Mentally they are 100% and remember all sorts of things and dates. Physically they have back pains, they get tired, things are getting difficult.
So perhaps they would feel burdened by it, and they would not say it? I don't know.

I would like to hear perspectives etc .

To give an idea, there are some journals on amazon, like these http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_7?rh=n%3A11385%2Ck%3AGrandpas+journal&keywords=Grandpas+journal&ie=UTF8&qid=1376541040&rnid=2941120011
Haven't seem any myself.[/quote]

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