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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother called the headmaster in a fit when they paused Grand friends day due to the lingering pandemic one year. She insisted she had to talk to all of my kids teachers to make sure DC was being treated well (the assumption being I was a lax mom that didn’t know how to work the system). She lived for the prestige she soaked up that one day, loving to tell people she was going to ______ Country Day for Grandparent’s Day. [/quote]

My mom and I had a huge falling out an never speak any longer. She also never sees her only grandkids now for this same reason.

Anyway, before we stopped talking, she used to call their schools. She lives in Texas and we are in Maryland and she would call the front office and ask about them. She would check the school calendar and do all kinds of weird and semi-creepy stuff. The level of detail she drilled down to was disturbing. Like emailing us about half days and stuff.

She came to visit once a year and chose to live in Texas. When she visited, she spent most of her time talking to her husband (my step father) about the weather in Texas and he’d be asking about some dumb college sports from Texas colleges that no one cares about here.[/quote]

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