Long Distance Family

Lots of letters, pictures and phone calls! I moved from Texas to PA 2 1/2 years ago, my family including my youngest daughter still live in Texas, and my other daughter lives in Virginia. The one in Virginia drives up for a visit about 3 or 4 times a month, and spent a lot of time with us last year, her husband was in the Army serving in Iraq. He's home this year for the holidays and they are planning on going back to Texas for Christmas, but we won't be able too this year. I am making 6 x 6 scrapbooks to send to my sister, mom and dad, and my youngest daughter, sharing highlights of 2007 with them.

Well, since my husband is Air Force and has 8 more years until retirement we will be living far from family for quite awhile. We live on the East Coast. My husband's whole family live in New Mexico. My family lives in Mississippi. Well, not all of them. My sister and her family live in Florida and my brother and his family live in Louisiana. They are both military families as well. We do tons of traveling. My dad helps out with his frequent flier miles. He gets lot of free tickets because he travels about every other week. When we go to New Mexico, my husband's family usually helps out with the expense thankfully. Since it is always us that is expected to come to them they don't seem to mind helping out. They know that if they didn't, we wouldn't be able to visit as much.

Isn't the Web Cam a grandparents dream? Maybe you can invest in one of those so that they can see him as he grows up and you can chat back and forth. I think that we be a good idea. My family is mostly in California, but some of them keep threatening to branch off to other states. This would absolutely not work for me. But, you got to let them go when they want to.

i am a single mom and my son is staying with my parents miles away from me. its really hard at times especially when you are missing our on the things happening in his life. its great though that now there are ways that makes communication easier. my sister would send me mms pictures of my son on each of his milestones and developments. i was lucky to have seen his first steps on my last visit. this christmas, im planning to take a longer vacation so i can spend more time with him than the usual weekend that i get to spend with him on a monthly visits.

That is a really difficult question to answer. My husband is military, so I know about the long distance family thing very well...although we don't have the option of going to see him due to him being overseas. It really depends on if you have the means to be able to travel there more frequently than usual. If not, sending pictures or using webcams to communicate with them so they can watch him grow would be a good way to keep them involved. You could even do videos of him to send to them and them do likewise, so they are still apart of his growing process. Not sure if any of this helped, but just some suggestions. Good luck and God bless