You know for the most part, I'm very happy that my parents are not in my life (haven't seen them in a couple of years) but sometimes I wish they'd smarten up and actually get over themself for the sake of their grandkids who are 3 & 6..
This time of the year, is bittersweet for me b/c you see all the Grandmas, Grandpas doing stuff with the kids and my kids have none and I hurt for them..
After the holidays I'll go back to my normal self and be grateful that they are not here and it's in the best interest and safety of my children, but does anyone else get a little sad about something around Christmas?
2007-12-21 00:37:27 · 8 answers · asked by Yummy♥Mummy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
If that's the issue, I think you shouldn't feel sad.
Your children are lucky enough if they have a loving family.
It doesn't matter how many elements constitute that family, as long as they feel they have people able to support them in every sense...
Sure, it might at times occur to them to ask what things would be like if their grandparents were part of their lives, just like I used to fancy about my cousins who all lived abroad...
But that will lose any importance whatsoever sooner than you expect... (I hate to say this, but when I was a teenager and even a child, I thought old people were difficult to socialize with...)
Happy Holidays.
2007-12-21 01:09:18 · answer #1 · answered by Sweetness_and_Light 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can relate to what you are going through. My kids are 17,15, 13 and my parents haven't be a big part of my kids life. My mother is living and my father past a way 6 years ago. My mother don't even call or try to be a part of my kids life in which its hard for me to except. I strongly believe in family ties but it getting to the point that I just living for my kids.
2007-12-21 01:12:49 · answer #2 · answered by Musicman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I get sad that I have to go buy a present for my gf and I don't have a clue what to get her, while at the mean time she has already bought me something and I even know 4 out of 5 ideas she had for me...
2007-12-21 00:41:44 · answer #3 · answered by Martin M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definite I do. Going out into the woods and scaling down our very own tree replaced into something i might look ahead to. mom interior the kitchen for weeks baking cookies, brownies, abode made breads, fruit brownies, rum balls, going to work out Santa, procuring at Sears (between the few great great shops of that factor). Going out with pals, Christmas Caroling. The %. at present is purely too quickly and there is no longer time to easily be ourselves.
2016-11-23 19:28:10 · answer #4 · answered by miracle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have bitter sweet feelings too that more family is not involved in seeing each other, but it is for the best, still, I do feel sad over it.
Merry Christmas
2007-12-21 06:19:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Now that you have brought it up I am.
Out of 7 of us I only know what my brother and I will be doing.
I haven't been told what any of the others will be doing, so now am wondering.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention, I guess a few emails are called for.
2007-12-21 05:18:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah, there's alot of things.
but one very close and important to me is that
my little brother is shipping off to the war right after the new year and we wont get to see him before he leaves even though he'll be home in Oklahoma---we don't have the gas money ya see and if my mom takes off on Dec. 26 to see him when he'll be in Arlington, Tx she'll loose about a week of pay and my hubby's work is the same way....
we're prayin' nothin' happens to him and we're gonna try to talk on the phone b4 he's gone.
gotta go cry now....................................
2007-12-21 02:05:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not any more. I'm over that.
2007-12-21 04:15:56 · answer #8 · answered by Irish 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋