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Grandparent Days
Greetings from San Francisco! I’m at the American College of Emergency Physicians annual meeting and spent yesterday performing surgical airways on a pig trachea. I know, control yourself. Your jealousy is a tad embarrassing. Of course, this begs the question: where are Eva and Zoe while Mommy is stabbing at swine cartilage? Ah, well they are happily tucked away in Ohio. Under the watchful eye of their grandparents, aunt and uncle. Am I missing them terribly? Of course I am. No seriously. For real. I mean it. Take that back.
In all honesty, I do miss them terribly. Then again, it is sort of nice to stick “Mommy” in the hotel safe and be just “Dr. Zibners” for a couple of days. I would actually feel really guilty about having said that if it weren’t for one fact: the girls are having the time of their lives without me. I’ve seen the photos and we’ve chatted on the phone. Time of their little lives, I am telling you.
Why you ask? Wouldn’t they be having just as much fun if I was there with them, helping my parents with bathtime and covering the early morning shift? Well, the pat answer is, “no.” When Mommy is there, Grandma is looking over her shoulder, making sure I’m not watching before she slips them a binky in the middle of the day. Mommy’s sister would never think of offering them fried chicken parts for dinner if I were sitting in the room. And Grandpa, well, he’d probably just do as he pleases and tell me to shove it. That’s his style. But I’d like to think he’s a little more relaxed when I’m not around.
So there you have it. Dr. Zibners, aka Mommy, has rules. Grandma and Grandpa don’t. That’s the way it’s always worked and I’m okay with it. A little candy/juice/public pacificer usage isn’t going to ruin them when it’s only for a few days. And it is seriously just a few days. If we lived down the road, well that would be another matter. But this is vacation. And little children are surprisingly smart about who will let them get away with what. Now back to my meeting. Did you know they make simulation dolls that have seizures and you can even make their tongue swell? Yes, it’s true.
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