J, Yeah that's how it seems. She's tapped out and proud of it. I suppose that's what gets my goat, the pride and bragging about her disconnectedness with her kids, while also simultaneously bragging about us.
For instance, she repeated a brag to me that she made to her co-workers (her real 'family', lol) about how she's not going to babysit or have sleepovers with her grandkids cause she's already been there, done that with her own kids. I didn't laugh. She has never watched my kids or helped me out in ANY way. Well, once I had an eye infection and asked her to watch my kids while I went to the eye doctor and she said she didn't want them to come over but she'd meet me at the office and keep them entertained in the lobby til I was done. It is this sort of stuff that she brags about to people, as if they will think it is funny. At the same time, she has a picture of BabyPot as her screensaver and tells me all the time that everyone she works with comments on her. So she wants the appearance of being a loving grandmother without actually having to do anything with/for them. She sometimes doesn't even come to birthday parties and NEVER buys a gift. It is always cash.
At any rate, somedays it's hard to remember what an utterly devoted and caring mother she was til we were grown. She is like two different people. Weird.
