Tag: grandparents
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Memories Baking with Mawmaw
My grandmother (Mawmaw) did a lot of baking when I was growing up. When I was about 3 or 4 years old is when she started pulling a chair up next to the counter, let me stand in the chair and help her. I have so many memories of making cakes, pies and various other…
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Ever hear the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words”? Growing up I remember hearing that phrase many times. Sometimes, it doesn’t have to be an actual photograph, it can be something you actually see then frame it in your mind like a picture. I like to dabble in photography. Nothing fancy, not a…
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Ever wish you could go back in time?
My uncle sent me this picture a few weeks ago. It’s of me and my maternal grandparents on my 7th birthday. I don’t remember this day very well. Over the years, I’ve blocked out so much of my childhood that even some of the good times got filed away. How I wish I could remember…
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A Very Special Friendship
Growing up in a small town where there were more boys than girls and going to a private school in the city where you have no friends was not easy. I did have one very special friend. Her name was Stacy. She had cystic fibrosis and people would not let their kids play with her.…
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Letters from WWII
Last night I pulled out some old letters my grandfather wrote to my grandmother while he was serving in WWII. When I was younger I found these in a drawer in my grandparents house and would occasionally pull them out and read them. Now that my grandparents are gone, these letters are in my possession…
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Sweet Memories
I have so many memories of living with and spending time with my grandparents. The love they gave me was more than what I was missing from my parents. They were the only stable thing I had in my life and being with them I felt safer than being anywhere else. They were like having…
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A little girl is born – 1968
I was born on a cold, rainy Friday in February 1968 in a hospital in the city. My mother’s face in the picture of her holding me for the first time shows she wasn’t happy and wasn’t sure what to do next as she stared down at me. I’ve never seen pictures of my father…
From Past to Present 