Grandmother's time
I went downstairs today, because it felt different. Usually on Saturdays my parents leave to visit my grandmother. I usually take my brother and drive to meet them to have dinner together. I didn't even go downstairs for anything except that it felt different
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But those kinds of grandmothers, the "spoil the grandchildren rotten" kind, my mother wished for her to be like that because that's the kind of American grandmothers she sees on TV and in the movies. My mom's fascinated with that kind of thing and thinks children would be happier if they had more positive support than just their own parents.
I was more attached to my grandfather. He lived in Taiwan and he was my mother's father but... he died in 2003 and I really had only seen him three times of my life, I think. Actually, it's hard... a lot of my life I have unconsciously blocked out for one reason or another even though I wish to remember it all...
Do I love grandmother? I don't know. I love my mother, yes, I know that for sure... but anything that happens to grandmother affects my mother...
Do I dislike grandmother? No... but I hadn't any idea that a grandmother could be someone who spoils you. Those kinds of grandmothers on TV... I didn't know most Americans were like that.
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