Today I met a woman who told me this story about her life.
She has 3 children, they have one father, they have his parents as grandparents.
The woman has an ex-husband and ex-in-laws. The ex-husband aka father lives in Washington state. He is recently handicapped.
Two of the woman's children live in Maine, and the Grandparents also live in Maine.
Her middle child lives in Oklahoma and is 8 months pg. Keep this in mind, she's not traveling outside of a 20 mile radius at this point.
In case you need a little perspective without dragging out a map; in your mind, put a dot on the upper west coast of the US just below Canada, a dot on the upper east coast of the US just below Canada, and a dot just above Texas (a dot inside of Texas is just as good because the easiest airport for travel is in Dallas, TX.) Got it? ok good.
Recently their Grandmother became ill and died. It all happened very quickly in 3 days time.
Now, the oldest child and the youngest child (both fully adult and fully capable) oversaw the emergency care of the grandmother and are now currently arranging for her funeral and the continued care of their grandfather.
The father and his wife had to wait for a son-in-law to come from Maine to Washington and escort them across the country. They arrived this evening.
The woman told me this next part is the biggest irony.
Her two children who care for the grandparents are the two children that the grandparents were very resentful about when their impending birth was announced.
One was "too early" because the spoiled brat son was still in college and they had always said that they wouldn't pay for him to be married and go to school ... and well certainly having a child and having to get married put an end to college.
The youngest one was "too many."
Now, of course, the grandparents did come to their senses, before the children actually were born. They loved them very dearly.
But what if the grandparents had had their way in the planning process? Who would have been there for them in that very moment of crisis?
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