Re: Living near Family Members
My parents are no longer with us.
My brother and SiL and my nieces and their families live in Yorkshire.
My nephew and his wife live in London.
Our eldest son lives with his family a forty minute drive south of here, still in Zumerzet, and our youngest son lives with his family about twenty minutes away by car in the other direction.
I have a cousin in the same city as our youngest, and another cousin in NZ, but we aren't really very close.
My Lovely Cousin and I had a loft conversion with a bedroom and en suet built for us just over three years ago, and converted what then became the middle floor into a self contained apartment so my Outlaws could move in with us.
They spend the night and morning in their own space, then join us for a communal lunch. We spend the afternoon together then they go back upstairs for tea and spend the evening there as well before going to bed.
My Cousin is my Uncle's main carer now and it is so much easier having them here with us even though they had their own place a few minutes walk away until they could no longer cope on their own.
My Uncle has known me since I was a babe in arms and I met the lady who became his second wife a few months before their wedding, over forty-five years ago, and we got on really well from the start.
Her two daughters became my cousins when their mother married my Uncle and he then adopted them, and the girls and I hit it off and became friends.
I married the younger of the two girls eight years after we met, and the older girl married the boy next door a few years later. They live the other side of the town from us and we still get on really well.
Our house is full of laughter on a daily basis. I am rude to my Aunty/MiL, and she loves it. I tell her that since she is my Mother-in-Law, being rude to her is in my job description.