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[quote=Anonymous]We have two sets of long distance retired grandparents.

One is a 6 hour flight, one is a 6 hour drive. With the limits of vacation time and budget, we set aside 5 annual leave days for each side (10 days), we each take 5 days to cover various school closures where camps aren’t available, and the remaining 5 are for a family trip. Is it ideal? No. But it’s the reality of what we are working with. The 6 hour flight grandparents come to us once a year, they are very tit-for-tat. It drives my husband batty because he says his parents only took trips to see his long distance grandparents every 2-3 years, yet they are all over him for not bringing our kids pretty much on every school break. My parents come to us 4-5 times a year, but typically stay for only 2-3 nights at a time, so end up with the same amount of visit time as my ILs, it’s just more broken up as my ILs come for one long 2+ week visit. We don’t take off time when family visits, if we did we wouldn’t be able to make the yearly trips to see them.

The grandparents who visit more frequently are closer to the children even though the total visit time works out the same, mainly because they come at times where the kids have a long weekend from school or have something important going on - dance recital, play at school, etc., whereas the other set picks dates convenient to them without regard to the fact that the kids will be in school for the vast majority of the visit. [/quote]

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