What your family really want is quality time and love.

What a beautiful and inspiring post!

Wonderful and sooo true post ! Thanks for sharing

Hi Giovanna,

This is so true. In the end all that matters is love and memories are based on love. Excellent post!

Hiya Giovanna

Lovely post. You explain the simplicity of love in being together as a family very well.

Thanks
Jens

I completely agree that an “imperfect visit” is better than “no visit.” No family (or family visit) is perfect, but spending time with family is so important and most of us don’t do it enough. Time is so much more important than gifts or cards or even phone calls. We should all try to spend a little more time with the ones we love.

Too true!
When my parents moved next to me, I felt great relief. I can now visit them every day, my kids see their grannies every day. Joy.

Hi Gio .. yes - Granny Peal I expect just wanted to live up to their expectations .. I think in some ways the proverb .. “pride comes before a fall” .. goes well here - Granny Peal definitely did not need to buy presents .. and now she has much less than before - she’s also deprived herself of her pleasure .. of visiting her family. However we should all think of others .. and her family could have driven over and seen her or collected, or paid for a taxi collection .. we don’t think do we??

Thank you for Granny Peal ..

Hilary Melton-Butcher
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Peal is a wonderful grandmother and mother to her family. I do hope everything works out for Peal in the end - family and financially.

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Have an awesome day!!

The greatest gift to give is our presence and love! It is this gift that will be remembered when all the other gifts are long forgotten.

Hi Giovanna,
Inspiring and thought provoking, thank you!
Darren

Very true. I miss the heck out of my grandparents.

Their are many that I would love to spend more time with, but can not because they are long gone from this world. It is a blessing to give whatever form it comes in. If it is a gift or our time. Both are gifts. Give the best gift of all. “YOU” Right now it sounds like she has little in the way of funds. Now is the time to give the gift of time. Share it with her loved ones. We never know how long someone will be with us. Lets not waste the gift of time. It is precious. Maybe she does not value herself as highly as she values the expensive gifts that she gave. Where she is far more valuable than anything that she could ever buy, no matter how expensive they might be. Thank you Giovanna for sharing with us.
Dan and Deanna “Marketing Unscrambled”

This is true however I think parents are bigger culprits than grandparents. Parents fear telling their children no. They over work to buy things they don’t need all the while spending time away from then. They buy more and spend more out of guilt.

I’m a fan of experiences over things.