This is me and my paternal Grandmother, pictured 15 years ago after my final choir preformance as a senior in high school. I was so proud that she was there to hear me sing and see me "in action." It was a first.
My "Granny" hailed from a teensy town in south Texas and didn't leave very often. But this night she came to see me. She was the grandparent I was closest to. I miss her. I also missed her birthday last week, as in I forgot about it. She would've been 101.
I was barely pregnant with The B Man when she passed away just a few weeks shy of her 96th birthday. But of course the wonderful memories I have of her live on in me forever.
I will probably post more about her in the next week or two just because... well, because I want to.
She sounds very special and you are both beautiful!! Grandparents are the BEST!
ReplyDeleteTake care, Elaine - see you - Kellan
You both look so happy in the picture.....sounds like you have some really wonderful memories of her.
ReplyDeleteHow sweet!! :)
ReplyDeleteLovely memory...
That's awesome that you and your grandma could have such a great relationship! I always wished I could've been closer to my grandparents!
ReplyDeleteYou can see how much you loved her...how sweet to pay tribute to her today!
ReplyDeleteAww! Post away! We love to hear gramma stories!!!
ReplyDeleteYou can tell your Granny was (and is) someone very special to you just by the smile on your face.
ReplyDeleteYou look so happy just to be with her. What a sweet memory.
ReplyDeleteYou both look so happy in that picture.
ReplyDeleteGlad you had so many years with her. :)
Can't wait to read more.
I've lost all of my grandparents and have been really nostalgic about them lately. What a great picture and a great memory you have!
ReplyDeleteThat is a great pic! You can just see how happy she is to be with you--and you look just overjoyed :)
ReplyDeleteAwe, I miss my grandma, too!
ReplyDeleteHi Elaine
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful happy photo of the two of you. Having a close relationship with your Grandma is such a special thing. My Nonna passed away before my children were born, but there are many moments where I think of her and so wish I could see her with my children. There were certain songs she would sing to me that I now sing to my little cherubs.
Little G reminds me so much of my Savanna when it comes to eating yoghurt. Sav requests "yo yo" all of the time and gets very messy when eating it. I do love the fact that Little G and Sav enjoy their yoghurt.
Your post about you wearing your apron got me thinking about all of the advantages of investing in an apron. I had never even contemplated owning one before I read your post. Etsy certainly is the place to shop for such a purchase. I am looking forward to seeing what you eventually choose.
I hope you are having a wonderful week.
Lots of love
Elise.
What a neat memory of your grandmother! I used to sing in choir in school too!
ReplyDeletePlease do post more on her! That love you have for your grandkids is unbelievable. Just you wait! Great pix. You haven't aged at all. jerk. lol
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ReplyDeleteHappy Belated Bday to your grandmama.
look at the joy in the pic!!! fab!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful pic! Grandparents play such an important role. I wish I was able to have gotten to know mine more.
ReplyDeleteShe sounds so amazing. I love the picture of you both, sweetie. Thank you for sharing your story with all of us.
ReplyDeletePS-we have a Whataburger down the street...but I don't like their ketchup :) My husband, though? Loves.it.
What a great picture of the two of you! I sounds like a very special relationship. It is so hard for me to contemplate losing a grandparent. I have been fortunate in my life to have only lost great grandparents. I have lived with both sets of grandparents at various times in my life. Losing any of them will be the hardest thing I have gone through in my life so far.
ReplyDeleteShe lived a wonderful full life!
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lovely post
ReplyDeleteSuch a sweet post! I recently posted about my grandma. Her birthday is next week. I just went to AZ and stayed with my grandpa at their house. It brought back all sorts of great, but sad, memories. Sad, only because I miss her!
ReplyDeleteHow lucky we are to have had such terrific grandmas!
Beautiful post.
That is a beautiful picture. Can't wait to hear more about her.
ReplyDeletesuch a sweet picture friend.
ReplyDeleteshe sounds like the perfect grandma :)
This is a great picture - what a wonderful moment in time to have captured.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to reading more about her.
That is truly special. My paternal grandma has like a zillion grand kids, so I'm just another face in the crowd to her. I always feel warm and fuzzy when she says my name, even if she is looking towards my sister ;)
ReplyDeleteElaine, what a beautiful tribute to a lovely lady. You just know she loved it from upstairs too!
ReplyDeleteThat's a sweet picture of you two! I'm sorry you miss her. Can't wait to hear more about her when you post more. :o)
ReplyDeleteBTW, you got the most correct on my mystery photos today!! Come by and see...
Aren't grandparents just the best?
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a special one.
I can't wait to hear more about her!
And maybe a little more about your singing too?
That is a a great photograph to capture such a sweet memory.
ReplyDeleteGrandmothers are wonderful people and yours sounds like she was at the top of the list!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great post I wish had met my grandmothers unfortunately they passed before I was born
ReplyDeleteawwww...what a sweet picture. I've been meaning to post about my grandmother too. Grandmas are the best!
ReplyDeleteGrandparents are a blessing.
ReplyDeleteThis picture is a true treasure and really, Texas women just rock. :-)
I adore that picture.
Can't wait to hear more about her!
ReplyDeleteAwwww, that is so cute. I just adore photos like that. Grandmas are the best, they are just so, so special. She lived a great long life - 96 years is amazing!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday to your Grandma. She seems like an amazing woman.
ReplyDeleteShe sounds lovely! It's great that you had such good times with her and it sounds like she lived a fabulous life.
ReplyDeleteYou look so happy that she was there for your special performance, how sweet!
Awww... makes me miss my Gramma
ReplyDeleteAwesome that you had such a great relationship with your grandma! I want my kids to have that kind of relationship with my parents...I wasn't very close to either set of my grandparents!
ReplyDeleteOh, I so miss my grandparents. I just lost 2 last year. So this was a great post for me to see! Maybe I should do a tribute to both of them in a post! Thanks for this!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo! Sweet post.
ReplyDeleteI'm from a town in south Texas that used to be teensy. It's not really anymore, though.
I lost my dad four years ago, completely unexpectedly. There are so many things I wish I could have said to him or done with him had I known he was about to leave this earth.