Happy Mother's Day - Grandma

If there was a best Grandmother award, my grandma would win it. I have SO many wonderful memories with her that I could write a book. One of things I always loved was for her to tell me stories. When I would spend a week with her in the summers she would tell me stories every night. She made categories for her stories: stories from when she was a girl, stories of when Mom and her brother were kids, stories about when she taught special ed., stories that took place in one of the other countries she lived in. I could pick which category I wanted and she would think of a story from that time. I loved it and have begun telling my kids some of those stories. I think my favorite story is the one she tells about holding me for the first time after I was born. She says that she knew from the very first moment that she held me that we would be very close. I love that story because it let me know that she loved me just as much as I loved her. Nick at Night, Shopping, eating at the mall on the third floor, having ice cream bars in bed, talking long after the lights went out - all favorite moments of mine that I consider precious gifts, treasures that I think about often and will always remember. I love you Grandma - Happy Mother's Day!