How have you connected with family and friends during the current social distance restrictions?
I’ve had spontaneous calls with our toddler grandson, shared matching Easter Eggs, compared items in our fruit bowls.
I’ve had regular “coffee meetings” with my Mum for five years. I arranged similar online Skype chats with UK girlfriends this weekend.
Our London based daughter called on Face Time for a “breakfast chat”. She was so happy that she’d been able to buy a tin of Milo. Her dinner was cereal with Milo. I had my usual porridge with blueberries and we had a lovely catch up.
I’ve had “afternoon tea” online chats and phone conversations with friends.
I’ve shared emails and Facebook comments and messages.
I’ve been able to share everyday moments with our two week old granddaughter, see her safe in her mother’s arms, see photos of her older brother interacting with her. My daughter even took her phone for a nappy change and continued chatting to us. It felt as though we were there in the room, just without the smell.
And I’ve enjoyed creating photos to reflect all these different connections.
RuthsArc 
That last photo is just brilliant! What a happy pair,
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Yes the grandchildren are so sweet! What lovely images. And Milo! That takes me back. We used to drink Milo in South Africa, in fact I thought it was South African, but looking it up I see it was invented by an Australian.
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Knew the Milo as a drink in the UK, but Aussie husband put on cereal, on ice cream….
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Haha…
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Wow! Such neat experiences for your situation. I love the last photo of your two grandchildren. They look really happy. I remember Milo from my childhood. We would have a big jug of it at breakfast most mornings before we went to school. We all have to be creative about how to keep in contact. I have several over 70’s in my orb that I keep up with. I keep up with friends over the phone too. Roll on though when some sense of normal contact – meeting up with people – is restored to our lives. Thanks for sharing.
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Lovely post Ruth, and your connecting in with grandchildren is similar to ours. We are very lucky to have devices that can take us around the world. How nice that you can have a coffee meetings with your Mum every week! Do you prefer Skype or Face Time?
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We prefer FaceTime as Mum has an iPad. I Sykpe with girlfriends. Both work well, luckily.
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Thank God for the internet and social media!
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I keep thinking how lucky we are to have this technology that makes connecting with important people in our lives so much easier. Imagine if you had to wait for a handwritten letter and photographs to arrive in the post?
I have a brand new great-nephew that I’m also not able to visit and I miss the cuddles but my niece is very good at sending me “great-nephew spam”. 🙂
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We have lots of exciting visits and cuddles to look forward to when we can socialise and travel 🙂
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