My grandma, who has literally never used Google in her life, finds me XXL pajamas in store, and all of them have pockets!! Pajamas with pockets, I can't even find jeans my size in stores so pockets I don't even think of...
I told her that the pan and casserole she got me for Christmas are the best I've ever used and that I still haven't burned anything despite adhd sometimes taking over and that I mainly adore them bc they go on the stove as well as in the oven... and so last Saturday, when we went to the Netherlands, she had some more because "what if you get manic and cook like you do in those moments but you only have 2 favorite pans?"... and I was floored bc she mentioned one of my coping mechanisms without any judgment apart from me not having enough utensils to make it through that moment....
I told her that I always felt nasty in my back bc I can't reach all the way since my shoulder injury so I feel like one side is always bad but that I can't find the same one she used to wash us with when we were kids and that using hers is a bit "🥴" and that others just aren't for sensitive skin and she just said "oh it's bc they come from that specific shop in the Ardennes, I'll buy you a few when I go" and in the meantime she gave me her spare one!?
Meanwhile, my mom, who never got along with her, will get mad every year bc she does always misses my birthday by one day (I honestly think that she really believes I was born on the 27th bc that's when she got the call since I arrived so late on the 26th)... now my birthday isn't near, I still have like 11 weeks to go, but I was reminded of all those not so little things my grandma remembers bc my mom has said that we weren't going to her house this year to celebrate her birthday bc my sister who left the house last December and hasn't contacted anyone since so she could be in her relationship "happily" (which led my mom in a deep depression) has decided to contact her today and told her she would be in town that weekend... so all of the nuclear family "has" to welcome her and "be nice" bc she'll bring her bf and they're staying 4 days... 2 of which are exams day for my little brother as if he wasn't stressed enough already and 1 of which is as y'all probably understood my grandma's birthday...
I didn't want to express the rage I'm currently feeling toward my mom bc it's intense and it could trigger most so I chose to mention 3 things my grandma has done for me over the course of the last few months and now I feel better...
To anyone who read through all that... sorry, but it had to come out one way or the other, and this is the nice one.
