When I was a child I was absolutely doted on by my grandparents. When I would see my grandma she would take my face in her hands and exclaim, "What a treasure!" In her house she had toys and videos, art projects and books just for me. My grandpa would drive to my house and pick me up whenever I called him. Every kid should have grandparents like that.
Mine don't.
Today my little girl is turning three years old. My dad called to wish her a happy birthday this morning. He said that we would be getting a delivery of cookies sometime today. Maybe I'm a jerk, but I think this is a lame present. She has been talking about having rainbow princess cupcakes for weeks. We don't need a bunch of cookies too. Kids like toys.
Then he asked how old she was. "Is she turning four today?" I'm sorry, but that is seriously retarded.
If you are a grandparent and you don't know how old your little grandkids are, then you are seriously retarded, and you need to step up your grandparent game! GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR BUTT!
I think my mom tries, but she isn't really good at hiding the fact that she really isn't a 'little kid' type of person. Yeah, she had six kids but she doesn't seem to enjoy spending too much time with children. Her career seems to be more important to her. She is getting ready to retire and just the other day she was talking to me about trying to find something that would give her some fulfullment in life after retirement. I said, "Sorry your family doesn't give your fulfillment, Mom!" I think that she thinks I am just kidding when I say this. I'm not.
This is very hurtful to me. The next time my Mom talks about 'finding fulfillment', I'm just going to tell her that I don't care about her fulfillment.
