Squeaky’s Blog

My kids love their grandparents.  Every single one of them and there are a lot of them in our family.  I on the other hand want to strangle them at times.  I think it’s a vicious cycle.  The grandparents love to watch the grandkids drive the parents crazy and help at times.  I swear all the toys and little things that I would never buy my kids they always seem to.  Then you can’t take it away because of so many different reasons.  I like putting things up out of reach for later I always say.   Well, that no longer works with the oldest.  He came into the kitchen today and told me “Look, I put stickers up.”  You know in that minute you want to rip your hair out going “Oh my god what did you do?”  So, I go in his room and he shows me in his toy closet how he put stickers all over the back wall.  The stickers that I would never dreamed of getting him were bought by his grandmother (thanks mom).  I had put them up on a shelf in his closet which I thought was out of reach.  When she (my mom) bought it, it started out as a writing center with all kinds of things from pencils, paper, stickers, rulers, and more.  Super cool present everyone thought, but all I saw was headaches.  Well, she got it for him almost a year ago now.  I swear that damn thing has cost me more aggravation and gray hair than any other present.  I think we have pieces of it shoved in draws and closets all over the house that we have taken away.  So, today it got me thinking.  I saw this man in the commissary and he had this shirt on that said “Grandparents Rules #1 Give kids sugar, #2 Give kids back to parents.”  So, yeah it’s a vicious cycle and I want to strangle the grandparents at times.  But, once again there was no real damage done today.  I still hate that damn writing center though.  Thank god all that’s left in it now is an empty pencil case and a package of blank cards (the thank you kind), not a lot he can do with that now.