Please send M&Ms: a grandmother on the edge

Please send M&Ms: a grandmother on the edge

Sondra Ashton

Greetings from Issaquah, Wash. I am staying at my son Ben's home while he and his wife, Shea, are exploring Rome. I am the keeper of my two-and-a-half year-old granddaughter Lexi — the designated Granny-Nanny. It is my official duty to foil her parents carefully laid plans for Lexi's development. My job is to find her every action to be pure delight, to let her have her way at all times and to sneak in such contraband items as chocolate milk and cookies. After all, what are grandmothers for?

When Lexi is older, I intend to be a grandmot...