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[quote=Anonymous]My grandparents are still alive (parents had us as teens.) Last year my maternal grandfather missed Christmas because of COVID. My mother doesn’t like my grandfather’s wife, so I think she was fine to not have to do the holiday at their house and to take control and plan her own thing. She took to FB proclaiming her unwavering love for her father, expressing how sad she was not to see him “for the first time ever” at Christmas. She promised there and also to him and the family that she would have the whole family over to celebrate a late Christmas after he quarantined. It never happened. When asked why she just said it was “too late now.”

Incidentally, this year my maternal grandmother is sick with COVID and my mother has already planned a mid-January make-up dinner. She’s group texted and called about setting it up multiple times. I know the date, time and place.

I can’t help but notice the disparity and honestly it makes me a little sick. I feel for my grandfather who was promised the same special treatment yet my mother didn’t deliver. I know it’s none of my business, but it is leaving a bad taste in my mouth and I don’t know what to do. I could call my mother out, but to what end? I could choose not to attend, but why hurt my grandmother? I don’t know what advice I’m seeking, maybe there is none. Either way, thanks for letting me get this off my chest. [/quote]

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