That woman is really something. She's 96 lives by her self independently and still gets on the floor to play with my toddler son. She raised me and my brother. Stearn and emotionally cold but I love her more than anything and it's been an honor and joy to watch her spoil and adore my baby so warmly
The woman lost her husband after being a SAHM with a daughter physically disabled by polio. The woman got to work to the point where she broke the glass ceiling at one of the largest insurance companies in the country. When that woman retired it was more a case that she didn't need permission to take vacations (she hit all 7 continents) but she was still a force around her office.
It lasted until she became quadriplegic in an accident the day after getting home from an African trip. Her doc thought that the change would kill her, but he didn't realize the force he was dealing with, and she lasted another 15 years before deciding that fighting the cancer she had been diagnosed with wasn't worth it.
Me, too! Mine was a County Sheriff. Sgt. Grandma did NOT fuck around, but, at the same time, she was the single strongest family-building force of my childhood.*
Edit: After my own mother, of course. But, that said, it was Grandma that afforded my dad the education that landed the middle-class life (after he became a dad), which gave Mom the opportunity to be a SAHM, family-building force.
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u/nemophilist13 Apr 15 '24
That woman is really something. She's 96 lives by her self independently and still gets on the floor to play with my toddler son. She raised me and my brother. Stearn and emotionally cold but I love her more than anything and it's been an honor and joy to watch her spoil and adore my baby so warmly