Friday, 25 June 2010 -- Day 187 (200)

While in WalMart tonight, Maddy saw some hair rollers. She's mentioned several times that she'd like to try putting her hair in rollers, and each time I tell her that Grandma Miller had a whole bunch still in the cupboard beneath the bathroom sink. She doesn't want them. Thinking that she didn't want something of Grandma's that she regularly used, I told her that Grandma hadn't used them in years. She still said, "No." She even has made the transition to calling it "Grandpa's house" rather than "Grandpa and Grandma's house." I'm a little concerned that the girls don't talk about Mom. I thought they'd occasionally recall memories, but they barely speak her name. Is that normal for teenage girls to seemingly forget the grandmother who made them matching dresses and helped them sew quilts and bake bread and read to them? Is it just to painful for them still? I need to talk w/ them about this.