Do you sometimes take your parents for granted?

Honestly, I think about this situation almost every day of the week. My mother has Fibromyalsia (not sure if I spelled that correctly), and when I was in the 8th grade, the doctors told me she would not live to see me graduate. Well, I graduated in 2006, I have been married since then, and had two children! And I feel bad, because I pretty much only see my mother when I drop my children off there before I go to work, and when she calls and asks for my hubby to help her out or me to, we are normally like, "Yeah, maybe, if we have time." And half the time we dont and I feel like crap because of it! I try to remind myself that anything can happen anyday, and to treat every day like it is your last, I need to remind myself of that more.

I used to when I was single and younger. I was to busy having my own life and I did take them for granted. I've always been close to my family but I would put them on the back burner sometimes. But now that I'm a Mom and my parents aren't in the best of health I take time to be with them and have my kids around them because you never know how much longer they will be with us and my kids are really young (5 & 7) so I want them to know their grandparents and have wonderful memories of them. I talk to my mom everyday now and we even moved down the street from them and I spend everyday with them some way or another. And it helps that they love my husband.

I think most people are guilty at some time of taking our parents and friends for granted, I guess we get wrapped up in our own lives and just don't think...sadly sometimes we don't wake up to this until we no longer have the people we have taken for granted...we learn too late.