Act Your Age: What is Age Appropriateness?

My son, his wife, and the 2 little guys came over the other night. We were sitting out on the back porch watching the boy's play, just enjoying being outside and visiting. There was silence for a few minutes and then my 27-year-old son looked at me, cocked his head to the side and said, "Mom, when are you going to start doing grandma things?" The question caught me off guard and I had to think about what he just asked. Maybe I didn't understand the question. I thought I was a wonderful grandma, nanny as the grandkids call me. My mind ran through the last few days trying to think if I had done something or said something that had tarnished my super nanny status. I could think of nothing.

"What do you mean, Grandma things?" He then went on to explain to me what he meant. He wanted to know when I was going to bake pies that would be sitting on the counter waiting to be eaten by unexpected visitors. I told him there was a pie on the counter. Then he brought up the fact that I didn't make it. I told him I had turned the oven on and actually bent over to put it in the oven. He wasn't impressed.

He asked me when I was going to bake cookies for the kids? I told him there were 3 different kinds of cookies that were sitting on the counter, and that he should help himself. He again brought up the fact that I didn't make the cookies. Well no, but I did buy them with the kids in mind. Shoot, I even put them in baggies so they wouldn't dry out after they had been opened.

Then he wanted to know about cakes. Cakes? I don't even like cake, why would I bake a cake? Well for him of course, a sheet cake like his grandma used to make. I explained to him that I wasn't really a baking sort of person. I don't like sweets so it is hard for me to make those sorts of things.

I had the thought cross my mind that perhaps I wasn't as good of a nanny as I thought I was. Then I had another thought about how I remember my grandma, and the things she used to do when we would visit. Then I had another thought, what the heck am I thinking about?

My son and daughter in law thankfully NOT acting their age but rolling on the ground with the kids.

Credit: Me

Copyright: Vonnie Chestnut