Confessions of a Grandma

  April, 2013   A nice lunch with my daughter and the two kids at Fire and Ice Restaurant in Middlebury, VT, was a good way to celebrate Mother's Day.  We got together on Saturday to avoid standing in a waiting line with hungry children. My son was not able to attend.  He spent this weekend taking the motorcycle safety course. Now there is a perfect Mother's Day gift--the idea that your child is contemplating a motorcycle.  So what if he is in his forties and doesn't actually need my permission. I hope it was a wonderful day for everyone.

I just received a card from my darling daughter:                          Mom, I thought about you today while playing with my food... ...after spoiling my appetite with cookies... before leaving my stuff on the floor... to go blindly follow my friends in whatever they were doing                   On the inside: God, I love being a grown-up! There you have it!  The heart break of motherhood.  Your children are going to ignore the most valuable training you worked so hard to instill.  Rebellion is inevitable. And you just cannot follow them around for ever insisting that they floss, drive safely, be polite, make only wise choices.  You cannot because they have totally perfect photographic recall of the times they watched you resisting these very ef...