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Patricia R.
on 8/5/09 5:32 am - Perry, MI

Please pray for my daughter and me right now. I am feeling very inadequate here, as I am not doing things with my granddaughter in such a way that my daughter is able to get her rest. I try to wake up in the morning and take care of the 2 year old, so my daughter can get some sleep, which she is lacking with a newborn. My granddaughter, the 2 year old, is her usually terroristic self in the morning and uncooperative with me. She wants her Mommy or Daddy to do the things I am trying to do, like make breakfast, and change her. It gets into a screaming episode, which wakes my daughter. I am walking on eggshells. I want to just pick the Munchkin up and dress her and kidnap her for the day, but have been afraid of the noisy fall-out. Here, that is what my daughter has been hoping would happen all along. My daughter was very snappy and upset with me this morning and I about burst into tears.

I did take my granddaughter out for lunch with her other grandmother, and we had a lovely time.

I would appreciate your prayers for my daughter and the baby to get some sleep and my daughter to not be so high-strung. Also, please pray for this two year old. Her parents are very strict and orderly. I try to be, but being as she hardly ever sees me, and I am stranger to her, I hate to be the dictator from the get-go.

Thanks,

Trish

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marylaw
on 8/5/09 6:58 am - Winfield, KS

VSG on 11/17/08

Hi, Trish.
Bless your heart. I'm praying. Maybe you can join forces with the other grandmother, pack a diaper bag, pick up granddaughter even while she's in her jammies, get picked up by other grandmother, dress granddaughter elsewhere, and go to a park or the zoo, somewhere where you all can be gone for several hours. That way, your daughter can sleep, your granddaughter will see you as another grandmother (which you are), and you can get out of the house, too. Something to think about.
Blessings,
Mary

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Patricia R.
on 8/5/09 9:02 am - Perry, MI

RNY on 08/28/06

Well, other grandma took Izzy and me out for lunch with another grand of hers. We had a lovely outing and Izzy discovered peanuts in the shell.

I guess I am just strugggling with feeling like I am letting my daughter down by not being able to handle things exactly the way she needs. Problem is, she is extremely perfectionistic and anal, and I tend to be more relaxed.

Thanks,
Trish

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer 96179

Hislady
on 8/5/09 3:04 pm - Vancouver, WA

Lap Band on 10/19/07

I'll certainly pray for you and know just what you mean because I have a 2 yr. old great grand and she can be quite a little hand full! Just know that alot of it is her age and that mom is sleep deprived and has hormones running amuck too probably. I think Mary's suggestion is great if you can work it out. As far as I'm concerned the gramma gets to be less disciplining, cause we're the gramma. Not that she should go crazy but that we can be more relaxed with the little ones. Just do the best you can and don't take it too personal because there are alot of emotions flying everywhere. Just smile and ask what you can do to help. God bless, hon!

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