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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t bean count. Maybe that’s part of why my kids have lots of friends. We have lots of fun. It’s not fun having a mom who goes through life with a face that looks like she’s sucking on lemons, whining about life not being “fair.”

Imagine a healthy person complaining about someone who went through cancer, playing the “it’s not FAIR” card. FFS. Grow up, OP. You sound like a nightmare.[/quote]

I can. I went to visit an old neighbor whose daughter and mine played together as little kids.  I don’t know what happened to her but she had turned so bitter.   One of the mothers had breast cancer and asked old neighbor to watch her daughter, same age as our daughters.   Old neighbor complained to me that she was always late picking her daughter up and she was sick of always having the daughter.

The mother died from the cancer a few months later.  [/quote]

Wow, that’s horrible. My daughter’s daycare friend came over for a play date, and the dad dropped off even though I had arranged the meet-up with the mom. Since it was the first time I thought it was a little odd he didn’t come in and chat for a few minutes, and he was late picking up, but I didn’t say anything because it was truly no big deal. We kept inviting with no reciprocation because this was my youngest daughter’s first “play date friendship,” and they were so little and it didn’t matter. Communication happened with the mom, but the dad was doing all the pick-ups and drop-offs.

Finally one day he confessed to me that the mom had leukemia and they were sorry not to invite, etc. My husband and I immediately said, we can take Jimmy for a few hours both days every weekend to give mom time to rest. Thankfully, after about a year of treatment, she was doing much better, and now they host play dates and are overall great friends. I’m really glad we didn’t get weird about “lack of reciprocation” up front. We were there for them when they needed us, now we know if anything ever happens to us, we’ve got “village-level” friends we could call. [/quote]

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