I saw my dad's mom constantly growing up, and my mom's mom whenever I visited Japan (she visited me in college too). No granddads in my life though, alas.
How many grandparents were you close to growing up?
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We were close to my mom's parents and, when I was 7, reconnected with my dad's dad. My dad's mom never liked my mom and that attitude extended toward us. She was also very old school German so she believed that grandchildren should be seen and not heard. I think my dad's mom was also maybe a little jealous at how close we were (and still are) to my mom's parents.
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I only had one full set (mom's side). My dad's parents died pretty early. We never lived close to my mom's parents but we try to visit once a year.
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My mom's parents helped raise me as my parents both worked full time for a while. Never knew my dad's dad, and his mom passed away when I was young. Plus they didn't live close so we never really saw them much.
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All of them!
When I was born I had two great-grandmas, one great-great grandma and a great-grandfather. Both my parents parents were alive, too.
I saw them frequently as they lived locally. When I was 4 I only had one great-grandma left. She passed when I was 17.
I saw my moms parents & my dads parents frequently. I still see and talk to my nana often. My pap and nono both passed away in recent years.
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None. My mom's parents and dad's mom were all gone before I was born. Paternal grandpa lives a province over, so we saw him and his wife once a year. He's not known for being "warm".
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My mom's parents. We saw them on a regular basis, and I would spend a week or two with them in the summer (it got me away from my three younger siblings for a little while, lol). We are still very close to this day. My dad's parents, not as much. He has three siblings himself, and he isn't close with anyone in his family, so we really only saw them occasionally for holidays and that sort of thing.
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My grandfathers died when I was 2 and 4, but we were close to them both before then. My grandmothers both lived locally and I saw them both weekly, if not more when we were very young. My paternal grandmother passed almost 5 years ago. My maternal grandmother is still alive, but she's in a nursing home now and she has dementia. I see her about once every month or two - she's 93.
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My moms parents and my great grandmother on my moms side. We spent a lot of time with them growing up and now my grandmother (moms side) is my only remaining grandparent and we see her monthly usually.
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2. My mom's parents lived within walking distance and we spent LOADS of time there. I loved that
.My dad's mom died when he was 3 and his dad died when I was 4, so I don't remember much of him.
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My mother's father lived with us, so I was closest to him.
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None. We weren't close to my mom's family and dad's family lives in Asia, so we rarely saw them and there was a language barrier.
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I wasn't really close to any of them.
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None are with us anymore but I was close with my dad's parents. For a couple short years they lived across from us on the lake and we took the boat over regularly. After my mom went nuts and ripped our family apart I stayed with my grandparents every weekend and my dad lived with them and cared for them in old age.
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My dad's parents. They lived like 2 hours away and I saw them all the time. I haven't seen my mom's parents since I was about 5.
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All of them while they were alive. My paternal grandparents + grandma's mom lived together 3 houses up from the house I grew up in so I spent a ton of time there, especially in the summer when my mom worked. My maternal grandmother lived about 10 minutes away and I saw her at least monthly and stayed overnights at her apartment every few months. My maternal grandfather lived about 45 minutes away and I only saw him a few times a year probably (until he died when I was 8) but I still saw him enough I felt I was pretty close to him.
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All of them. My gran babysat us daily for probably 7 years. She's my fave person ever.
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All of four of them but closer to my mom's parents than my dad's because they lived in an RV and traveled a lot. My dad's parents have since died and my mom's dad has Alzheimer's but we are still close to him and my mom's mom. She is excited to meet her first great-grandbaby!
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All of them. My paternal grandparents lived only a mile away, they were like a second set of parents (but still with the grandparent spoiling perks) and my maternal grandparents were a 30 min drive away for most of my childhood. My maternal grandfather passed away almost 6 years ago, but everyone else is still alive and doing very well (they're all only in their early 70s). Still very close with them all. My paternal grandmother knows we're TTC and is still trying to grasp that I'm "going to make her a great grandmother!" I can't wait to see, when we're KU, my other grandmother's reaction... probably some screaming and how she's too old to be a great grandmother, lol!
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Very close with my Mom's parents and somewhat close with my Dad's parents.
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I saw all of them twice weekly (they babysat us). My grandpa was still working though, and a very busy man. I didn't see him much as he barely got home before my dad picked us up.
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Just my maternal grandma. Never met my grandfathers!
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All of them. My dad's parents lived less than 5 minutes from us and watched me after school. My mom's parents lived about 20 minutes away and we saw them frequently. I had all my grandparents until I was 16, when my dad's dad died unexpectedly; my mom's parents were both alive until after I graduated from college, and my dad's mom is still alive. I can't wait for DD to meet her great-grandma in a couple months
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My mom's mom and my moms grandparents. My dad's mom lived a state away so we saw her every once in awhile but weren't close with her until we were teenagers. The extent of my interaction with my mom's dad was them playing tennis with him during the summer...but I don't think at the time I even knew he was my grandfather. Haven't seen him since I was 7 or 8.
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None of them. They lived in a different country and I never saw them.
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My mom's parents lived with us in the summer and then most of the year once they need more assistance so we were very close with them. My dad's parents both passed before I was born.
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None really. My daddy's parents were deceased by the time I was born (my daddy was 60!) and my mum's parents didn't particularly approve of the fact that my mum married a man older than them so we didn't see them often. Of course I did see them at holidays and such and I see them a couple of times during the summer when they come up from FL but I wouldn't say we are close.
.My dad's mom died when he was 3 and his dad died when I was 4, so I don't remember much of him.
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