My travels and normal life: The grandkids are here!

Well, that's great news. They are here! Big trip from Holland to NZ.
Aaron and Alice are staying here in our cottage, making this their base while they are also travelling around seeing their other relatives. ( Hamilton and Taranaki)
We did a few nice things while here.
Violet learning some basic riding with Dad on it as well on our very quiet horse Freedom.
They had lots of pool time here and also beach time.
Also a walk to our river was a highlight.
Again, family dynamics came into it again after a dispute about a pool picture of which a plastic ring tube and 2 floaties were only visible . I understand if you don't want to show a girl in togs on Facebook, but on this particular picture, hardly togs was recognisably. And certainly no togs were visible. So when I asked that that rule made no sense she became furious. " Because that's our rule, she shouted". Oh well, be like that then, I thought. No discretion

or exemption made, no grace allowed. No questions allowed.
And what's with the blue water of the pool? Why only pool pictures not being allowed?( this is if on Facebook) Well, here are the photos in question: All I see is a happy family having fun in our family pool.

I mean, surely, for this particular photo you could have made an exemption. For example:
" yes this photo is alright, we hardly see anyone in it except for a blue ring and 2 floaties and a face".
But no, no questions were allowed to be asked, no exceptions, as" we've had this conversation before" nonsense.
Really? Where is the respect of mothers and fathers of our age? Where is the rights of asking questions? It ended up with an argument in which they( specially Aaron) made me feel like 1 inch tall. He shouted that I was mean. ( asking questions? Mean? Hmmm.)
Of course, I had to say sorry in the end, and leave it at that. And I was sorry for ever having asked the reasons behind this.
But after that I started feeling quite down/depressed thinking I was a good for nothing mother-in-law.( or the evil mother-in-law)
The only way I started feeling better about myself is listening to that song: "You raise me up"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DorNUsi5LE
And so a few days of feeling like a good for nothing mother and mother-in-law began.
It took a while to feel better again. And now I've come down with a cold and a very sore throat. It's those negative feelings that brought this on. Quite sure of that.
I'm not a happy camper right now. And I am also quite sure I'm not going to travel back to Holland in a hurry unless I can plan it in such a way that I only stay one week in Eindhoven( in the Queen hotel), the rest of the time, travel around visiting various friends and family, and then a few more days in Eindhoven( Queen hotel) , then go to Israel again on my way back, possibly do workaway there for a week. Hire a car from TelAviv, then go to Haifa ( visit Yael and Allain)and then to Kyriyat Tivon, then to Tiberias staying in Kibbutz in Ginosar, and then Kibbutz Ein Harod.) ( maybe also to Jen of Galilee) and then Jerusalem, to do some volunteer work.( for one week), it should come to about 3 weeks again.
Anyway, these are just thoughts, not actual plans. I'm not in a hurry to go back to NL, maybe will be 2021. Brian said he wants to do more Campervan trips in NZ this year and 2020.
Anyway, enough ramblings, here are some more pictures of their stay here. Not all was bad and it went ok again after this. I just know now to back off and bite my tongue, question nothing and just enjoy the good things. Some people are just super sensitive. Pictures below are from the train trip we did on an old diesel train from Waikino to Waihi and back. PS Later I caught Aaron posting a picture of our pool,( a panorama one) with Violet even naked in it. When I called it snap he was angry that I thought he did it deliberately. No I didn't think that but don't you check your photos first before posting it? I always do. I check colour and horizon balance and so on. He deleted the photo in question but hey it's normal that I became sarcastic. I ended up with a severe chest-infection whist in Taupo, it came from that massive negative event. Fuck that! I ended up on anti-biotic's which I luckily had with me already. PS now it's August and I have seen photos on Facebook of their holiday in Ibiza with pictures of Violet in her togs and Daisy in her nappies on the beach . But hey, that's their choice and their kids. I didn't say anything about it this time.