Why?????

[TempestRayne]

Okay, I created an email address for my six year old daughter-so she could keep in touch with her grandparents and father (who all live far away).  I let her write her own emails and send them, but she isn't allowed to email anyone I don't know and i read all her emails before hand (her dad sometimes spams inappropriate mail and forgets to remove her from the list-and her grandmother forgot once-not a big deal, i just deleted it, but i still scan just to make sure).  Anyway, she emails her grandmother to wish her a happy belated Thanksgiving, and her grandmother replies and says "maybe your mom will let you both (my son included) come to visit us this summer."

I know it may not seem like a big deal, but she said this to my daughter before talking to me about it first-and i absolutely can NOT  stand when people get my kids' hopes up!  I would absolutely love for Julie to go (though, not my son, that would be a transition nightmare, and with him being autistic, and violent to bootthey have a couple of much smaller children, and he goes after his younger sister his older sister, fourth graders, class mates, so i have every reason to believe that he might try to do something to the smaller ones as well.), and I wouldn't deny her just to spite them (I also wouldn't let them keep her the whole summer, just two weeks or so), but that is sooooo irritating.

and this is on a different note: why can't they come to visit the kids?  they have NEVER come to visit them, it was always us going to see the grandparents.  every single time.  And driving to Indiana is pretty damned irritating, particularly when you are close enough to the coast in southern  SC to get a strong sea breeze on a calm day.