{"id":37729,"date":"2026-11-09T00:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=37729"},"modified":"2026-11-09T00:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:29:34","slug":"my-daughter-planned-to-leave-all-8-grandchildren-with-me-for-christmas-so-i-made-other-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=37729","title":{"rendered":"My Daughter Planned to Leave All 8 Grandchildren With Me for Christmas\u2014So I Made Other Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week before Christmas, I overheard my daughter Amanda telling someone to send all eight grandchildren to my house so she and the others could enjoy a vacation without the kids.<\/p>\n<p>She laughed as she explained that I had nothing else to do, that I could handle all eight children, and that I had already paid for Christmas dinner and bought the presents.<\/p>\n<p>I stood frozen, realizing how little they valued my time and effort. I had always been there for my family, but this time I decided things would be different.<\/p>\n<p>On the morning of December 23, I packed my belongings, got into my car, and drove straight to the seaside. For once, Christmas would be about me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week before Christmas, I overheard my daughter Amanda telling someone to send all eight grandchildren to my house so she and the others could enjoy a vacation without the kids. She laughed as she explained that I had nothing else to do, that I could handle all eight children, and that I had already&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=37729\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;My Daughter Planned to Leave All 8 Grandchildren With Me for Christmas\u2014So I Made Other Plans&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37731,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37729\/revisions\/37731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}