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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Glad that you are close enough to family to get a hand delivered care package.
My SIL's daughter and grandkids are up in Vermont/up state NY (technically they live in upstate NY, but right across the border from Vermont and work in Vermont). She is comfortable with staying in touch via social media/texting/phone calls, but my mother has trouble understanding what people say on the telephone these days, so they will sometimes do a video chat with my mother so she can see and talk with the great grand kids. I think that helps a lot.
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I have 2 grandkids in MA, 1 in NYC, 1 in Maryland and 2 in Florida. It is much easier to communicate these days. I grew up as an army brat at a time when only the direst emergency would warrant a long distance call much less a transatlantic one. I still have letters that I received from my grandmothers all those years ago. When one grandmother died, my aunt returned a stack of letters to me that my grandmother had kept. Of course, lots of those letters contained photos, announcements, etc.
My granddaughter in Maryland was very anxious a couple of days ago after going to the grocery store. She says people were crowded together, bumping or backing into each other and seemed totally unconcerned with distancing. I sent her the instructions for DIY masks. My recommendation was to paint Rocky Horror lips on the mask and practice the Time Warp- just a jump to the left....then a step to right. I think it helped to lower her anxiety a little. Today she sent a pic of a rainbow outside her apt. Made me smile.