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Friday Five: Family
Aug. 9th, 2024 10:04 am1. Are you and your birth family close?
Quite! At least for my immediate/nuclear family, which is my (divorced since I was 4) parents and my brother.
2. How far away do you live from your various family members?
My dad moved in with us a couple months ago and is likely to live here for the rest of his life. My mother splits her time between a house down the street from us (that she bought after we moved here) and the apartment I grew up in, which is about 3 hours drive away. My brother lives near mom's (they're both in New York City), in an apartment with my sis-in-law. My step-mother is in a nursing home/memory ward in New Jersey, in the same area where my step-brother lives, also about 3 hours away.
My grandparents have all passed.
My mom's brother splits his time between California and Germany, so...opposite coasts and across the Atlantic.
My dad's brothers and their families live in California and Oregon, so also opposite coasts.
I've got a mess of cousins who are kinda all over but I'm not close to any of them.
3. When was the last time you visited with relatives?
Dad and I were complaining about the leak from our porch about 2 hours ago.
Mom was up here, uh, like a week and a half ago. I've not been down to visit her in a few months, but I'm going next weekend (for work/vending, not for fun). My brother, I've only been to his apartment once, last winter, but I saw him maybe three weeks ago? idk time is a lie and an illusion.
I saw most of my dad's brothers' and their families at my brother's wedding last September. I haven't been to California to visit them in...10 years? something like that.
My uncle visited my mom a few years ago and I saw him then. I've never been to his place in California. I met up with him once in Germany like, uh. 14 years ago. Something like that.
4. Do your relatives travel to visit you?
Answered in the last one! Most definitely yes.
5. How do you stay in touch with family: phone calls, email, snail mail, texts, other?
Mostly texts. Mom and I call each other fairly often (usually at least once a week).
I'm not really in touch with my uncles and their families, we connect through my brother or my wife via Facebook if we need to connect. (They're not my wife's family. I didn't include my inlaws in this post. But my wife has a viable FB account and I don't, so she does the social networking stuff.)
Quite! At least for my immediate/nuclear family, which is my (divorced since I was 4) parents and my brother.
2. How far away do you live from your various family members?
My dad moved in with us a couple months ago and is likely to live here for the rest of his life. My mother splits her time between a house down the street from us (that she bought after we moved here) and the apartment I grew up in, which is about 3 hours drive away. My brother lives near mom's (they're both in New York City), in an apartment with my sis-in-law. My step-mother is in a nursing home/memory ward in New Jersey, in the same area where my step-brother lives, also about 3 hours away.
My grandparents have all passed.
My mom's brother splits his time between California and Germany, so...opposite coasts and across the Atlantic.
My dad's brothers and their families live in California and Oregon, so also opposite coasts.
I've got a mess of cousins who are kinda all over but I'm not close to any of them.
3. When was the last time you visited with relatives?
Dad and I were complaining about the leak from our porch about 2 hours ago.
Mom was up here, uh, like a week and a half ago. I've not been down to visit her in a few months, but I'm going next weekend (for work/vending, not for fun). My brother, I've only been to his apartment once, last winter, but I saw him maybe three weeks ago? idk time is a lie and an illusion.
I saw most of my dad's brothers' and their families at my brother's wedding last September. I haven't been to California to visit them in...10 years? something like that.
My uncle visited my mom a few years ago and I saw him then. I've never been to his place in California. I met up with him once in Germany like, uh. 14 years ago. Something like that.
4. Do your relatives travel to visit you?
Answered in the last one! Most definitely yes.
5. How do you stay in touch with family: phone calls, email, snail mail, texts, other?
Mostly texts. Mom and I call each other fairly often (usually at least once a week).
I'm not really in touch with my uncles and their families, we connect through my brother or my wife via Facebook if we need to connect. (They're not my wife's family. I didn't include my inlaws in this post. But my wife has a viable FB account and I don't, so she does the social networking stuff.)
