list 43 things about my grandma, so that I'll never forget

11) Good posture was important to her. She would have us walk with books on our head in the living room.
12) She was fiercely patriotic, and felt like she fought the wars along side of those brave soldiers (emotionally anyway).
13) She would sit on her scratchy floral hid-a-bed couch with a book in one hand and a cigarete in the other hand. She would forget to flick her cigarette because she was so engaged with the book, and she would get a long ash balaned on top of her cigarette.
14) She raised four daughters: Nancy, Sally, Margaret and Katherine.
15) She was such a great gardner that some of our friends used to call her Mother Nature.
16) One time we had a flash flood come down from the forrest behind our house. Grandmother stood on our front porch and shook her fist at the flood and said “don’t you dare!”, because it was heading right for our yard. The flood came down to our fence line, made a sharp right turn, and went around our fenceline into the neighbor’s yard. From that day on, I KNEW she had special mother nature powers…I think she did too.

1. Had brilliant red hair and an attitude to support it
2. Was the only daughter in her family. She had three brothers
3. Loved to read. Read anything she could get her hands on
4. Loved to garden. We had the prettiest yard in town
5. Wore a blue sweater and had horned rimmed glasses for years
6. Worked as a CNA
7. Made beautiful quilts for her family. Every grandaughter had one
8. Used an old black singer sewing machine which she promised me when I turned 16.
9. Had a porceline doll named Carlie. I have her in my hope chest.
10. Loved baseball. Was a fierce fan of the Atlanta Braves.

She is the reason for my family, she’s a huge part of who I am. She loved me, I loved her. I believe she is still looking out for me, for all of us, and I miss her still.

when company spent the night, she gave them her bed. She insisted they take her bed. She had a guest bed, but it wasn’t good enough for guests. I actually thought the guest bed was more comfortable (I like a really really soft bed) but she believed her bed was the best & insisted any guests sleep there.

She only wears sweatshirts and jeans in the winter.

She doesn’t acknowlegde the lines on the road if there isn’t anything coming.

She drives past empty parking spaces before settling on one. Not that the first few were any worse than the one she chosechoosedchoose picked.

She buys me useless crap and gets mad when I tell her to stop buying me things.

Her cooking was awful. Everything smells the same and never tastes right. She can’t even make brownies.

Atleast a few of her cookies are good.

We used to have the whole family over for holidays. That includes, me my parents and grandma and gradpa.

Yep, it was fun time. She made too much food. Me and my parents would eat at the fold up table in the liveing room and my grandparents would eat in the kitchen.