Do you love me?

My sister-in-law called me and said that they were going to be grandparents. I was jealous. She called me a month later and told me that her other daughter was pregnant and she was going to have two. Now, I was beyond jealous. The next month, I picked up the phone and told her that I was going to be a grandma. She pointed out that she will have two grandchildren and I will only have one. I mentioned that she has twice as many kids so it still works out the same. That was 11 years ago.

Things changed when life got in the way and we adopted our grandchild. While his parents are still involved in his life, we are the ones raising him so he does not have the option of having us as grandparents. We are the parents. We homeschool and basically make his life miserable as all good parents should.