Posted by octopusprime on November 2, 2004, at 11:14:22
In reply to Re: Family party - Next question, posted by fallsfall on November 2, 2004, at 6:50:54
hey falls (again!)
i'll speak up as part of a "normal" family - i get along with my parents and sister ok, even though we are across the country from each other now.
i talk to my parents and my sister about once a week on the phone, usually on the weekend.
and i call my mom when i have questions about cooking, even though she can't usually answer them better than i can, because i think she likes it when i ask for advice. i don't mind taking her advice when it comes to cooking. the other advice she can keep to herself. :) so it's my little compromise when i talk to my mom.
that will obviously be impossible with your son in japan, but maybe you can write to him once a week? i'm sure he'll be happy to hear from you.
seeing family is a little more difficult with flights and such. this year was a strange year - lots of back and forth - my sister was here in march, i went home in june and august (for a workshop and a funeral respectively), and my parents were here in september. i think going forward i will go east once a year and my sister will come west once a year. that's enough for everybody. we have elected not to do christmas as a family - flights are too expensive to make it for major holidays.
i have talked openly with my parents about this arrangement and they said to me they are ok with it. since they said it i will believe it. i would like to see my sister more often but our schedules are difficult to coordinate.
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