I wasn't asked to babysit my two-month old twin granddaughters

(Chapter 23 Living with a memory impairment and being a Nana in my book)

I just talked to my daughter on the phone and I'm going to spend time at her house tomorrow. She told me that on Tuesday night her and her husband are going to a Boston Bruins game. I asked her who was babysitting the twins and she said her mother-in-law. I told her that was nice, but inside I was hurting. She said that if I wanted to, I could come by and help her mother-in-law with the twins. I told my daughter that I felt that she could handle it on her own. I also said that I preferred to visit with the twins when she was there. I live in the same state as my daughter, only about thirty-five minutes away. I'm not really sure why my daughter feels that her mother-in-law is a better choice to babysit the twins, but this is very painful for me!

I am so hurt by this! Will my daughter ever allow me to babysit my granddaughters? Why is it that my children seem to be in denial that I have a memory impairment except when it affects them?

I just hope this hurt goes away before I go see her tomorrow because I don't want to have this discussion with her. Later, after I talked to my daughter, I was still upset, so I called my Mom and I talked to her. She said that when I spend the day with my daughter tomorrow that I needed to talk to her about how I was feeling.