I love spending time with all my grandchildren but find that my daughter in law is happy and friendly when I will watch the grandchildren so she can do things but has little time for me otherwise. Does anyone else feel like this at times? My son works long hours so does not see the whole picture.

I come from the text-book dysfunctional family. Controlling, poor boundaries, emotional abuse, etc. I was raised the first years of my life by my grandparents, I spent many weekends and summers with them even after my mother decided to get married and be a parent. (Which she ended up hating...

About a relative in your family who was a true homesteader. (Fixer got me thinking of this.) My great granny came overseas from the old country. She had little money and lived on almost nothing for the first several years in Canada. She came with her dh and his brother. They built a 2...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_GRANDMOTHER_SURROGATE?SITE=LAALE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-10-24-19-38-47 I know it is sweet and all.. nut on some level, this just creeps me out. Am I alone in this?

I have the set of four and have been slowly reading through them. I never heard anyone mention them before, but they're a pretty good read.

Im heartbroken. I feel awful for my grandmother and my mom. THere's nothing I can do being so far away. I don't know why, but even though in my heat I knew that the time was near, i kept hoping in my hear that things would turn around. My kids knew her. Not very many can say that they knew their...

My grandmother got put in the hospital a few weeks back with pnemonia and a kidney infection, not to mention she hardly weighed a thing. The family decided that if she made it out of the hospital she was going to a home which is what happened. Well, she's still been going down hill. When she...

hello everyone- i hope your holidays are going great. just wanted to ask for all of you to pray for my grandmother, my uncle found her laying on her floor last night (christmas eve), she had a stroke & heartattack. she is in the hospital doing ok. please say a prayer, this means alot to my...

dh's grandmother is having a hard time because her husband has had a reoccurance of cancer. so i made her a prayer shawl to give her something tangable to reminder her we are here for her. it's a rose colored pink with a couple of rows of a leafy green at both ends. i follwed the pattern from...

I passed our local recycling place on Friday and they were putting out piles of fertilizer for the taking. They do this a few times each year and people snatch it up for their gardens because the soil here is horrible. This is from the leaf recycling and from the mounted police. It has been...

This is a poem similar to Jenny Joseph's "when I'm an old woman..." http://www.kellymom.com/parenting/purplesling.html

A week or so ago my mothers mom fell and they thought she had broke her hip, after taking her to the hospital for x-rays they said, no it was just bruised , gave her some meds and sent her home. She has still been hurting(she is 93) so yesterday mom and one of her sisters took her back to the...

Grandmother What could be more precious than Grandma's special love? She always seems to know the things That we are fondest of. She's always ready with a smile Or a loving word of praise, Her laughter always brightens up The cloudiest of days... She has an understanding heart that...

Giblet and egg spread (for sandwiches) Giblets from 1 chicken 1 shelled, hard-cooked egg 1 T. cream 1 t. minced onion 1/2 t. Worcestershire sauce 1t. catsup 1/2 t. salt Cook giblets. Drain; put through medium blade of food chopper with hard- cooked egg. Add remaining ingredients. Fork and...

I sure didn't inherit it from my mom. She has absolutely no crafting ability and will say so. My grandmother did make lovely embroidered items, so I must have gotten my love of doing a craft from her. I may have also gotten it from my dad. He was really good at working woodwork and...

Please keep us all in your thoughts and prayers. This is the most devastating loss we've had in 15 yrs. I am really worried for Dave as well as my inlaws :(

My grandmother is the reason I got started in quilting. She is the one that got me to try to do my first one. This last summer while on vacation, she gave me a quilt top that she had made, but hasn't had the time to do anything else with it. I am totally in love with it. Mostly because it is...