August 13, 2021 Issue, Page 5 of 8

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Activities August 14, 2021 Grandparents are ‘Mommy Qbpes—-Believe It or Not! and Daddy’ to toddler iS) Dear Abby to call you what he wants. You and your husband have made them.” ding rings other than to clean dear that his mommy is in DEAR ABBY:Ilive in Florida, DEAR ABBY: My daughter heaven, but right now the boy and the rest of my big family passed away last year, and we needs a “Mommy” right here lives in Canada. Last year, five WATER GUN WAS received custody of our grand- on Earth. It is not at all disre- INVENTED BY ANASA son, who was 15 months old spectful of your late daughter's of my nieces/nephews were at the time. He is now nearly memory to allow him that. admitted to the hospital for ENGINEER, ¢ 2 1/2 years old. My daughter varying health reasons. Rather DR. LONNIE JOHNSON. wanted him to call me Mamaw DEAR ABBY: I have been than send flowers, I sent each because that’s what she calledhappily married to my hus- a check for $50.00. I thought my mother, so I've always re- band for five years. When we money would be more useful. ferred to myself that way, but married, money was tight, so ‘Well, last week my daughter recently, he has started calling we agreed to use temporary was diagnosed with malignant me Mommy. I say Mamaw back wedding rings and upgrade to melanoma after a mole was THE LARGEST to him and sometimes he will our final official set later. Well, say Mamaw, but more often it’s we finally did it, and my ring removed. After I emailed the BILL TO GOINTO Mommy. is what I always wanted. It is news to my sisters, I received CIRCULATION IN Tm uncomfortable not hon- stunning. one response from a sister say- THE UNITED oring my daughter as his mom- The problem: When friends ing, “Give your daughter our STATES WAS my. We display her photos, and family (and sometimes best!” Other than that, there THE 410,000 and he will say that that's his even strangers!) compliment have been no cards —- nothing. mommy, but I also don’t want me on my ring, it is often ac- Am I petty in thinking they NOTE. to hurt his feelings by saying companied with, “Can I try it should have at least sent my T'm not his mommy. His father on?” or more forcibly, “Let me daughter a card? - PETTY IN isn’t in the picture, so my hus- try that on!” I would never ask FLORIDA band and I are the only parents to try on something so pre- he knows. My husband seems cious to someone else, and I WHILE WALLY THE uncomfortable with him call- never want to see someone DEAR PETTY: Your relatives GOLVDEN RETRIEVER ing me Mommy and when he else wearing my wedding rings. apparently didn’t consider the WAS SWIMMING IN hears it, he tries to correct him. Why do women do this and thoughtfulness you displayed HICKORY HILLS LAKE === Should we allow him to call us how can I politely tell them to their children something to IN MASSACHUSETTS, Mommy and Daddy or contin- “NO WAY”? — SHOCKED IN be reciprocated. How sad. In & WOODCHUCK : ue to correct him? -- GETTING NEW YORK situations like this, it isn’t the CLIMBED ABOARD HIS Rone IT RIGHT IN NORTH CARO- tangible item that’s most im- LINA DEAR SHOCKED: The wom- BACK AND HITCHED & SS portant, it's the thought, and RIDE TO SHORE! ¥ Entertainment ine. {©2021 Ripley en want to see it on their own DEAR GETTING IT RIGHT: hand and imagine for a mo- it aPPears your relatives didn’t ana Please accept my sympathy for ment that the ring is theirs. Want to put in the effort. I do the loss of your daughter. 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