Long Distance Grandma: Staying Connected Across the Miles

You'll find recipes, crafts and fun ideas for the holidays that you can use to stay close to long distance grandkids. I found the ways to make blended families feel loved especially helpful in this day and age of so many remarriages.

Long Distance Grandma: Staying Connected Across The Miles is a highly practical compendium of ideas written especially for grandparents and other family relatives seeking to stay in touch with faraway youngsters. Organized by themes pertaining to different months of the year, suggestions include plans for using the Internet and e-mail to stay connected, projects to send via snail mail, camera suggestions, recipes that are fun to make and ship easily, great craft ideas and much more. An excellent resource for connecting hearts across the span of miles, particularly in an increasingly mobile era.

This book is from a genuine heart! Janet Teitsort is an inspiration to grandparents who want to stay in touch with their grandchildren in a world that keeps families busy and pulled apart. Her ideas are tested and they work!

Practical suggestions about being an everyday part of your grandchilds life even though they live too many miles away to visit frequently. I especially like the idea about buying books to send to small grandchildren and recording them on a cassette before you mail it. As the young child looks at the book their Grandparents sent them they can play the cassette and listen to Grandma or Grandpa read the book to them. It is a special personal way to share a book with children many miles away. It helps grandparents become something more to little children than just a picture in a frame.