Trailing Grandparents

I just found out that friends of mine are making plans to move to another city where their adult children live in order to be close to the grandkids.

And it occurs to me that we still haven’t come up with a really good term for that.

And I was thinking about, what about trailing grandparent? Isn’t there such a thing as trailing spouses?

Yes, that’s right.

When a spouse gets a great job and the other spouse comes along, moves with them to the new city, but doesn’t have a job themselves.

Right, right.

What about trailing grandparents?

Trailing grandparents.

That could work.

But it sounds like they’re following cookie crumb spore across the continent.

Well, they kind of are, probably.

They’re following dropped binkies and blankies and follow the grandkids.

Yeah, I still don’t know what the verb is for that.

Maybe it’s just trailing.

Yeah, trailing.

Our adult children? I don’t know.

Well, we’re still taking your recommendations

For words to use,

Verbs particularly, for grandparents

Who move to be near their

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