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[quote=Anonymous]My mom is so difficult/annoying to be around. If I invite her to my kids bday parties or school functions, she talks it up in detail with the attending parents. Like soo much. It's annoying. She doesn't give that same attention to my kids, and it is their event. She will even exchange contact info with these parents or ask very detailed questions about where they live or where they went for college/school. So strange and I feel embarrassed. 
I've started to limit what I invite her to.

Also when she comes to visit our home, she stays for like 2 hours only (which always includes a meal/eating that we host) and then asks to be dropped off at the home goods store, bc she wants to go shopping and says the home goods in her area isn't as good.  It annoys me because she would rather go shopping than spend time with the grandkids.

I don't think she will change. She is 73. She is very self-focused, incessantly talks, doesn't listen or ask any questions about my life or what the kids are up to.

Can anyone else relate? Why is  she this way? How do others deal with this? 
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