When Parenting Your Parents Becomes Heartbreaking

When Parenting Your Parents Becomes Heartbreaking

"Get ready. What you're going to see isn't pleasant." Those were the words of warning from my sister as I prepared to embark on a journey to Norway to visit my 87-year-old grandmother. "Mormor," our Norwegian grandmother (literally translated it means "mother's mother")had been a central part of our lives for as long as my sister and I could remember. We spent each summer traveling with our parents to my mother's homeland where we would stay in our grandparents' house for a month at a time. There, we would enjoy home-cooked meals in the Scandinavian tradition, trips to visit far-flung locales in the northern part of the country, and lots of time as a family spent playing cards and telling stories.

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