*Sigh*

Just when you think you're already being walked all over in every way she has in her, she comes up with a new one.

When school let out for Christmas break, her son came home with a personal timeline project with a due date of tomorrow. Since that time we have been reminding him - and more to the point for this rant, his mom - that this project was coming up. She at least bought his poster board (er, I dunno for sure: maybe grandma did this). Friday night the kids cut it in half, as Hannah is going to need half of it for a similar project, and that's the appropriate shape for them to work with anyway.

Last night mom allowed her son to go over to a friend's house, with the understanding that he had to come home "early" to work on his project. At lunch time, she told me she was getting him "soon." A little while after I came back from lunch, grandma informed me that mom has to work today, as the restaurant is open on a rare Monday to accommodate Restaurant Week.

Needless to say, in spite of four full weeks of trying to keep her from doing so, mom has dumped the grandson's project on us to help him do.  Literally, the only thing that is done so far is the cutting of the poster board, and his mom didn't help him with that, either.

I'm really not at all upset about helping my grandson with this project; I think it will be a good opportunity for us to work together and maybe teach a side lesson about managing projects, too. But I'm so disappointed that my daughter has missed out on another opportunity to be the mom she dreams of being and the considerate daughter we need her to be.