I fluff your pillow?
Jennifer, is that you?
Yes, Grammy it's me.
It was always the practical joke that I played on her when she called mom & dad's house. She would always giggle. Yesterday marked 4 years ago that she left this world and joined the other. It some ways it seems so long ago and other ways, it just seems like yesterday. She was a strong woman who taught me so much and in some ways feels like her life was cut too short, even though she was 88. I have a feeling that tonight she is enjoying time with her sisters playing some scrabble and giggling at something funny.
This is a picture from the last time I saw my grandma. Mom, dad and I went to visit her for the day and of course we had to go to lunch at her favorite place, Applebee's.
So today, I remember her with tears of joy and not tears of loss. I am so thankful and blessed to have been able to spend so much time with my grandparents growing up and in some ways being one of the "favorites". Some kids might think it was the worse thing to do, and we probably did too at the time, but spending two weeks on the farm every summer was one of the greatest gifts we could of ever received. Grandma would always take Trav & I to town, and while she got groceries, we got to go to the pool. Of course, no trip to town was complete without a stop to Goodrich Dairy, she would get milk for the week and we would get Orange Casanova's. Now my favorite was bread fresh out of the oven with a little butter and homemade Blackberry Jam. Yummy.
We also learned the lesson that if you got stung by a bee, you should put mud on it. Now, I don't think Grandma was prepared for the afternoon when Travis & I covered ourselves in mud at the pump house and tried to convenience her that we were stung by bees. Needless to say we learned garden hose water is quiet cold and it takes a LONG time to dry outside.
Diamond Lil, I think the most important thing you taught us is to laugh and smile. Life is too short to do anything else but that! Love you always!
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