spend more time with my grandmother

The Mother’s Day is normally a day to visit my grandma, meet the cousins, eat some delicious food, see her with a smile all the time, receiving hugs… But this year we made a smaller event at my house and it was good, because I could talk a lot with my grandmother, laugh with her stories, show some pictures, help with the food and this kind of stuff. We didn’t have many people to give attention, so it was so much productive.

Sometimes I see my gradma so weak and it makes me so sad because I remember I don’t have much time with her. I always see she cheering with my sucesses and I always cry when I think she won’t be always with me. I hope at least she can see me with my own house and come to visit me and we make some cake together, as we do since I was a child.

It’s been a hard goal to achieve, as I’m not having time to see most of my relatives and friends in this fase of my life. I try to spend a little time with her when she’s at my home, as happended last Sunday. When we can’t be there in the same day, I try to call her as soon as possible and know how the things are.
This month, with my new salary, I decided I’ll give her some money to help her with her stuff. Health insurence is so expensive that there’s just a little for the others things. I hope I can at least give her some calm thoughts about her market’s boughts. And I hope I can buy her new shoes for her morning walkings (it’s so funny to see how my grandma is much more atlethic than me).

My grandma is one of the most important person in my life. Even I can’t be with her all the time, she’s always making things to make me happy. I miss the time I could spend more time in her home, eating the delicious food she was always cooking to me and teaching me how to do. When my parents was travelling, the days she spent with me and my brothers was the funniest ones on my childhood. Today, she’s very sick and I’m so worried about she dies and I can show her how I love her since my oldest memories.

My grandmother played a huge part in raising me. I cherish the time I have left with her. She is truly an amazing person. A Hospice nurse for over 20 years and leader of her local chapter of compassionate friends, she just finished her first novel and is working on her second. Embrace the people you love.

I can’t .. am in another country .. :(

My paternal grandmother passed away on May 6th in Seattle. I hadn’t seen her in two years…

my Grandma’s 92nd Birthday. I went over to hang out with her and we visited, wathched tv and ate cake.

She’s got dementia. Her memory is going. She keeps waking up at night, packing her stuff because “she’s not home” (but she’s in the house she shared with my grandfather for their 43 years of marriage…). I fear one day she will forget me, and I want to make as many memories as I can before “one day” becomes “should have”.

We hosted a surprise birthday party for my grandmother this year – under the reality, do it while you can. We had just suffered a great loss in our family and I didn’t want to say, would have, could have, should have. We catered lunch for the Senior Center she attends, set up photos and pictures, sang happy birthday, and served dinner for 50. Surprise…for someone who doesn’t like surprises, she surely appreciated love in action. As for the family – I gave up on everyone doing it the same way, everyone contributing, everyone being supportive. We just did it. Happy Birthday Bigmama!

Today I had lunch at her place and we talked about cooking and stuff, and looked at ancient recipe books. It was fun :)
And on saturday I’m gonna go visit my other grandma with my dad.
I have to keep in mind that I’m probably gonna move away this summer.. even more reasons to spend time with them.

we had a family dinner she enjoyed holding my cousins twins. :)