I don't share my Grandma... !!!

One day me and my daughter were chit chatting about her favorite things, and I asked her who her favorite person is, with a hidden agenda to hear 'Amma' so that her dad will feel a bit jealous.

But she replied, without even the slightest doubt, that her favorite person is 'Ammoomma' ( grandma)!

Who got jealous now!!

But I should have known that coming, because my mother has a special bond with all her grand children, they all just love her so much, irrespective of the fact that they get to see her only once in a couple of months. She makes individual time for each of her grandchildren even in her super busy schedule. On working days, they all eagerly wait at the door step for their super special grandma to come home from work. Every single time when she needs to step out to run some errands, we can hear howling from all three of them ( as if it's a 'howling competition' ). So the point is, that was an obvious answer, may be for all of them.

I thought, now it is time to  make her aware about the relations, so I just told her "Gowri you know what, your Grandma is also my Mother" . 

Now I wish I shouldn't have, especially not when she is tired and about to go to sleep. She replied, with her loudest voice "No Amma, Grandma is not your mother, she is my Grandma". SHE IS MY GRANDMA, that was a strong statement. 

I understood that she is in the verge of a tantrum and  now is not the time to correct her, so I kept quiet. And her dad started, without realizing the tension in the situation "No dear, she is not only your Grandma, but she is also your mom's mother and also Vishnu Chettan's  and Nandhu Chechi's grandma too". (Oh, so now it is truth time)

Do I need to tell more, already we were in, anything can happen next moment kind of a situation, now she got more shocking news that her Grandma is her cousins's Grandma too. How can that be possible?

Want to know what happened next ? In simple words I would say our bed filled with ocean of tears, even our neighbors also might have got an ear full.

She screamed and screamed ' I don't share my Grandma ' and now after thinking about her grandma so much, she started missing her. That is even more worse to console .The outburst detoured, now the issue is she needs to see her favorite person right away. Now means now. She weeped "I am missing Grandma, I wanna see my Grandma". But that bought tears to even my eyes as well, because I was able to feel her sadness and the love she has towards her grandma, she hasn't seen her for months. How can I console this girl ? I gave her a big hug, and lots and lots of kisses, wiped her tears away,  and told that as soon as the Corona virus goes away, we all will go to Grandma's home and stay there as much as you want.

But sadly I  don't  see that  day coming any time sooner.

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