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[quote=Anonymous]My parents are 25 min away, they moved to VA to be close to me and my kids 6 years ago.

We see my parents every weekend - they come to the kids sports, school events, birthday parties. They watch the kids on days off school when we need to work. They occasionally watch the kids overnight on a weekend for 1 night, maybe 6 times a year. If we had a conflict where we couldn’t get both kids to activities on the same night, they would help out on a weeknight, but we try to avoid scenarios where they just do the kid stuff to help us. We prefer to bundle any time they are helping us with quality time - so if they pick up the kids from school for us while we are at work events, we would meet them at home with takeout and have dinner together.

I love that they are around a lot because my kids have a very comfortable and affectionate relationship with them. We went away for a long weekend recently and my 6yr old started crying when he realized it was “just the 4 of us” and neither set of grandparents, no aunts, none of my local cousins were joining us. [/quote]

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