When we were little, my parents used to \u00c2\u00a0refer to the process of adjusting to the real world after spending a weekend being spoiled by my grandmother as “de-grammification.” You know, that difficult period of time when the reality that you will no longer be having your every whim catered to finally sets in. My parents made their own granola. My grandmother bought us Corn Pops. You do the math.<\/p>\n
From a very early age, my grandparents loved to spoil me rotten. Who wouldn’t want to spoil a child such as I was? The very first time that my parents left me with them for a weekend, they made my grandparents solemnly swear that they wouldn’t go overboard with the sweets and the spoiling. You can probably tell where this is heading. My parents showed up to collect me and I kept tugging on my grandfather’s shirt and saying, “Nuts! Nuts!” My parents asked what was going on and my grandfather turned beet red.<\/p>\n
Apparently he had been feeding me mini powdered donuts all weekend.<\/p>\n
I’m sure that my parents were annoyed at the time. Especially when they had to bring my cranky self home, sugar coursing through my veins and totally used to getting whatever I wanted. But, nowadays, we look back on that story with fondness and quite a bit of laughter. I told it at my Grandfather’s 80th birthday party and got quite a few laughs out of it.<\/p>\n
Now, 26 years later, my mom gets to spoil a grandchild of her very own. It warms the very depths of my cold, black heart to watch her offer my nephew more ice cream or walk back into the ice cream store and ask for a sugar cone (the little guy chose to get a cup but changed his mind when he saw my delicious cone). My mom relishes every single moment of being a grandmother and it shows. My nephew brings out the very best in her. When they’re hanging out together, she simply shines from her head to her toes.<\/p>\n
Someday, we’ll contribute our own little goobers to the family. My mom will fill them up with ice cream and cookies. We’ll drive home complaining about the sugar and the over-stimulation. We’ll secretly love every moment of it. I might even buy my dad his first package of mini-donuts so that he can follow in his father’s footsteps.\u00c2\u00a0 For now, I’ll just sit back and appreciate the joy that my nephew brings to the entire family.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0And do my best to help him consume an entire package of Pixie Stix.<\/p>\n
That kid is hilarious<\/em> when he’s all hepped up on sugar.<\/p>\n Did your grandparents spoil you when you were little? What was your favorite indulgence that you only got when you were with them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When we were little, my parents used to \u00c2\u00a0refer to the process of adjusting to the real world after spending a weekend being spoiled by my grandmother as “de-grammification.” You…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-5J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}