Go Ask Grandma

Reasons I am glad my boys are watched by their Grandma:

• They are cared for by someone who loves them as much as Oscar and I do.
• They get plenty of chances to run outside and play.
• She takes them to the library.
• And to the fire station.
• And to feed the ducks.
• They get one-on-one attention.
• She does lots of craft projects with them.
• She makes them home cooked meals.
  
• They also get to spend time with their Grandpa and Aunt Re.
• They get to cook (today Gabe helped make pancakes, raspberry jelly, and a vanilla milkshake, which he referred to as a muscle milkshake).
• She is able to take Gabe to his weekly gym class and to summer camp.
• She can watch the boys earlier or later, if we need it.
• She has a sandbox and a water table for them to play with.
• She has lots of toys for them to play with.
• She reads to them regularly.
• She doesn't let them watch much TV (Gabe watches maybe an hour at the most, and only if the weather is bad).
• They regularly play with her neighbor's grandchildren who are around the same age.
  

There are probably a lot of other reasons that I'm just not thinking about now. I complain a lot about my MIL watching the boys to Oscar. And yes, there are a lot of things that bother me. But I don't want to forget that they are lucky to be watched by their Grandma. It's the next best thing to Oscar or I being able to watch them.

Of course, I wish circumstances were different, and I could be the one to stay home with them. And yet, I'm not sure that would be what was best for them. I need to work, I think. I need to have that adult interaction. That separate part of my existence. I don't know that I would make a good stay at home mom. I love my children very much, and I know I would do my best, but would my best be as good as Grandma? I don't know.