My kids come to see me about once a month. I usually make one of their favorite dinners/lunch, grill out, go out to eat, etc and we just sit around and talk. It seems we never run out of things to talk about.
How often do your adult children come home? When they do what do you all do together?
Since they all live close they pop in at different times. See one if not all at least once a week. We all get together 3/4 times a year.
Our children also live in the area, and drop in whenever they are near. Especially when they have the grandchildren with them. Unfortunately the two oldest grandchildren are in another city for university, so we only see them 3 or 4 times a year. (Christmas etc.) No great-grandchildren yet, and hopefully not for 3 or 4 years till the grandkids finish university. :)
I am on the border of seeing this less and less . . . This year I might not see my oldest son for that long, since his College Co-Ops seem to keep him employed longer and longer. I will see him and my youngest at the holidays, and for a week or two this Summer. We like to hike, Kayak, and cook big meals together.
I have three older sisters, including two who are married and have kids of their own. Now that we are all adults, it can be hard to get us all together at home (between the four of us we live in three different states), but we manage to do it for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and of course we visit our parents variously throughout the year.
They stop by every couple of months separately with their families. All at the same time on certain holidays. We have a lot of cookouts, sit around and talk, and sometimes I'll put the guys to work if I have a project going on that I could use an extra hand with. They are always willing to help and I let them know how much it is appreciated.
Too often. They make the house look untidy and seem to think that I should feed them and offer accomodation........
My step-daughter lives about as far from us as can be and still be in the US. We are in FL and she is in northern CA. We are lucky if we get to see her twice in one year. When we do we usually meet up some where for vacation for one of those two times. The other she comes to us, or we go there. When she come to us we usually go to the beach and go out to eat. If we go see her we do some of the touristy things. She can't join us on vacation this year, but we ae heading out to see her in December. We are going to head up Napa Valley for a couple of days.
