Kids Choose to Spend Christmas with Poor Grandpa Instead of Rich Mom – Story of the Day

Instead of opening the expensive gifts their mother gave them, a girl and boy spent time with their grandfather on Christmas. They loved the cookie molds he bought from the supermarket, but their mother wasn’t happy seeing them play with cheap gifts.

I need to buy Christmas presents for Alice and Peter today! Lily thought while driving home from work. On her way, she stopped at the mall and bought expensive gifts for her children.

Lily bought the presents two weeks before Christmas because she knew she wouldn’t get time later. Her job kept her busy, and she returned home every day after dinner. She rarely got to see her children during weekdays.

Being a mother, she always wanted to be around her children, but she prioritized her job because she thought earning money was more important than spending time together. After all, I can buy expensive gifts for my children with my hard-earned money, she thought.

Lily hid the presents in her closet and thought she would give them to her kids a day before Christmas since she would have to fly to another city the next day for a business meeting.

However, a day later, Lily learned that her meeting got canceled. “Yay! I can spend Christmas with you all this year!” she told her children and husband.

“That’s amazing, Mom!” Alice exclaimed and hugged her mother.

“Why don’t we host a Christmas party this year? What do you say, honey?” Lily asked her husband.

After her husband agreed to host a party, Lily sent invites to all her friends and her husband’s father, Michael. When she shared the guest list with her children, they were delighted to see their grandfather’s name.

The kids yearned to see their grandfather, but Lily deliberately kept them away from him. She thought her children should only interact with rich, sophisticated people, and Michael was not one of them. The poor man lived in a trailer on a field outside the city.

I hope he doesn’t show up, Lily thought to herself. She didn’t want to invite Michael, but she did so because of her husband. She thought her friends would make fun of her if they learned that her father-in-law was so poor.

Later that day, Lily gave her children the gifts she had bought for them. To her surprise, neither of her children was interested in opening the presents. “I’ll keep them in your cupboard. You can open them later,” she told them.

On Christmas Eve, Lily welcomed her friends into her house and asked them to take a seat. However, her smile suddenly faded when she saw Michael walking towards her house. Oh no! Why is he here? she thought and...