Cross country family checkup - worth the effort?
This May the spouse and I set out on separate trips. Me to visit my Mom in Ontario, son and daughter-in-law in British Columbia, and English cousin in Alberta, with various other cousins, aunts and uncles met along the way.
The spouse didn’t travel as far, but he connected with friends in family in the Ottawa area.
This cross-country family check-up thing has become a bit of an annual event for us. We both feel compelled to keep in touch. We are however, starting to wonder why. You see the effort doesn’t go two ways. Few of these family members who say they cherish our visits so much, ever return. They don’t make the effort to come visit us.
Its too far, they say. Funny, do they think distance only works one way?
It costs too much, they complain. Ummmm, do they think it somehow doesn’t cost us?
We are now planning a major trip for next year, but taking different routes. We are not mapping by where family lives. Instead we will let folks along the way know where we will be and when. If they want to visit with us we would love to see them.