Miranda in Bloomin' Beauty. (Click on the image to see more from this le•top collection.)
After a day spent with Grandma, I picked up my daughter to find this bright pink and purple hair attachment clamped to the back of my daughter’s head. “What in the heck is that?!” My mom replied, “Well, we were at the mall, and she saw a girl wearing it, and we asked where she got it from, and well, Miranda really liked it, so I bought it for her.”
Other things that my mom has gotten for my daughter are:
- Hannah Montana crayons
- High School Musical pens
- Letting her get her nails done (in very light pink so I wouldn’t see it right away… sneaky!)
- DVDs (claiming that she doesn’t have DVDs at home)
- Sugary snacks such as chocolate covered pretzels, Dora yogurt and Hello Kitty cookies (claiming that mommy doesn’t get her good snacks)
I rolled my eyes and sighed, and thought about the days when I was a little girl and my mom refused to buy such sassy things. She always gave me the response, “If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you jump off, too?” Of course, now that she has a granddaughter who wants all these trendy things, my mom doesn’t even bat an eye. She gets it for her in a snap!
I wonder if I’ll be doing the same when I have grandkids. Probably. I guess it’s easy to spoil grandchildren than it is your own children.
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When I was younger my grandmother (my dad’s mom) used to live with us and every saturday she would walk down to the grocery store for her usual morning donut and coffee and she would always bring back for me my favorite chocolate bar in the world: a Kit Kat! She would normally leave for the store when I was sleeping but after a while I would always wake up just as she was walking through that door to receive my treat for the day! Now she lives in El Salvador and I haven’t seen her for a while but when my parents go to visit her she always gives my mom a Kit-Kat bar to give to me!
My mom says that she will not try and spoil my kids (if I ever have any and yes mom I will someday) but I know her and I know that she will give in very easily!
Guilty as charged! There is such freedom when you are a grandparent, because you do not have the RESPONSIBILITY of ‘raising them right!’ Justification or not – you feel somehow that spoiling the kids (just a bit) is your reward for all the times you wish you could have with yours, but knew that wasn’t the responsible thing to do! Giving in…what a great feeling!
Whenever my daughter spends the weekend with her grandmother, she always comes back with a few more extra bags. Hair clips, bows, scrunchies, DVD’s, lip gloss, snacks, stuffed bears, etc. This past weekend, she came home with a new Hello Kitty wallet (why a new wallet when she has 3) “but mom, this one is blue!”, some fruity fragrance lotion, shampoo & conditioner from Bath and Body works, sunglasses, and miniature cupcakes!