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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
Momless vent
I just really need to put this out here...
Any of you ladies with out a Mom? My Mother is unavailable for all 4 of us kids and has not even met DD. I have friends with babies and their Mom's go to the grocery with them, hang out with them, and the such. I just really wish DD had a Grandmother. (MIL is too busy being corporate lady to aknowledge DD) I just feel alone in this because all my friends have fabulous mom's who are truely excited to have grandchildren and they are so involved. I wish I had a mom to get annoyed by because she stops by unannounced, or buys stupid toys...
I hope DD doesn't notice but I know one day she will. Any of you dealing with similar?
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Re: Momless vent
I'm estranged from my mother too and she has never met my children and I haven't spoken to her in over 8 years.
It is hard, but I've learned to rely on myself for things like I always have.
I'm not sure yet what I will tell my kids about my mother. My MIL is a great grandmother, but she lives over an hour away.
My mom saw DS the day after he was born for an hour and hasn't seen him since. She lives 20mins from me. She has the balls to say that she hasn't called of tried ot see me becuase she is waiting for me to call her. She told me that she feels that I only send pitures to her because I feel obligated to do so rather thenreally wanting to. She never came to my baby shower and when she did actually come visit me in the hospital she refused to hold Ds and said she was surprised that we even called her.
MIL on the other hand loves DS to pieces so at least he has someone.
It just sucks all around because she is never goign to be the mom that I long for.
My mom wishes she could do some of those things, but she is 1000 miles away. It's nice that I get to talk to her about stuff, though, so I guess that's better than an absent or completely uninterested mom.
You can't look at what other people have. You get what you get and you don't get upset, right? I mean, they have a ton of other BS to deal with that comes with having a super hands-on mom, too. (Going with you to the grocery store? Too much closeness right there.)