Adventures in homeschooling
• Thursday, December 20, 2007 - To grandma's house we go...
"Over the river and through the woods".... Yep, dear ole grandma. Haven't seen grandma since summer. Talk to her every now and then on the phone, but still, need to see her. We are doing our Christmas with her too. She lives an hour from me and I try to make the visit a good one when we do stop by. Love seeing grandma. Grandma Dot is a wonderful cook; love her fried chicken the best. She also cracks me up to no end. Even though I've only known her for a couple of years.
You see, I just found her two years ago next June. My parents divorced when I was 3. Dear old dad left, never to come back. Leaving my little brother and I wondering what we did wrong. Little did we know that my mother and other grandma threatened my father to never see us again. They did some very vicious things to make sure that my father's side of the family stayed away. Even went the extra mile to try to poison our minds that (1) our father didn't want us and (2) he would kidnap us if we ventured to far away from them. Nice huh?
Needless to say, I always felt trapped by my mom and grandma. Questioned everything and who I was. After I had my oldest was born I wanted to know my father. My mother was no help, she "forgot" or "couldn't remember" any information on where he lived or where his mother lived. Still, I tried to find him. When I found the obituary of my father, announced in the paper six months after the fact, I was devastated. He had passed away Dec. 19, 2005. During a horrible snow/ice storm. His landlord found him two days later. Here I would never get to know my father. I had been robbed! Guess who suddenly remembered everything after she found out dad had died? Yep, my mother.
Yes, I was very mad at my mother and grandmother. Still am. They lied to us, my brother and I. Robbed us from knowing our father, no matter how "bad" he seemed to them. Yet, there is a sliver lining in our dark cloud....we did gained a family. We found that we had two half brother that are older than us, several cousins, a grandma and her husband, two uncles and one aunt. Plus, they loved us on sight. Do you know what loving someone unconditionally without all the emotional threats feels like? I was in awe of it. There were no head games or pulling their love away when we did something they didn't approve of. What was even more amazing was I remembered my grandma and her house. Talk about goose bumps.
So, today we are going over the river and through the woods, to grandmother's house we go. |
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