My Grandmother Did This with Me as a Child, Share Your Family Stories.....

im sorry to hear about your loss. i have kind of a crazy story about my grandmother. well she was very sick and had alot of surgery's in her life. i got pregnant when i was 20, and from the time i told her through out the 9 months, she always told me that in order for me to have my daughter that she was going to have to die. which upset me very much. she would say that the angels will come get her and replace her with my baby girl. so on May 20th, 2004 i got a call from my aunt sayin that my grandmother wasnt doing very well and later that night she died at 6:47pm. at 6:30pm on May 20th 2004 my water broke. my mom left with me to take me to the hospital and on May 21, 2004 i had a baby girl at 6:47pm. so just 24 hours later from my grandmother being gone and i had a baby girl. so i guess she was right. for awhile i thought that if i didnt get pregnant she would still be around. so in a way i kinda thought it was my fault. as my daughter gets older she does an says things and the faces she makes reminds me SOOOO much of my grandmother. now i dont think of it as my grandmother being gone, because in a way shes still here.

L.,
Thanks for your email. My Grandmother too was a VERY important part of my life. She passed away five years ago before my son was born. In fact the last thing I remember having told her was that I was pregnant with him. I am so sorry for your loss. Share those stories with your kids. You love it and they will too. My son hears me sing songs that my Oma sang to me, I make some of her special dishes and I tell him I love him in German. Things she did for me.
My thoughts are to always have her in my heart, and she will always be cherished and remembered.
This missing part, that takes longer to go away. Best of luck and keep those memories alive. They will make you and your kids smile.

The things my mom/grandparents always said to me were more humorous than sweet like yours but it is neat to see them laugh when I say them to my little ones now. I even get the occasional "Wow! You really DID listen to me when you were a kid afterall!" lol. That is great you are keeping up her traditions. Sorry for your loss but congrats on keeping her "alive". :)

Hugs
A.

Hi L.,
Sorry to hear about your loss. It is always difficult to lose someone close to you. I have lost too many in my life so far. I remember one of my great grandmothers would always offer us double mint gum. She was much too old to do things with when I was old enough to remember them, but I always remember her walking around in her apron with a beautiful smile offering me gum...silly I know but I still miss that. My great grandfather would always offer us hard peppermint candies or an archway cookie, usually molasses. He was quite a guy, always walked down the mountain to my grandparents everyday and back. They both lived into their 90's. I am very lucky to have met them. They were beautiful people, it was a great loss to our family.
-J.

This little memory that became a routine part of my life was something my dad always did.
He always wore one of those pocket tee shirts around the house. And with 2 little girls it was pretty often he saw us crying over one thing or another.
Always he would come straight over and begin to pick the tears off my face, and put them in his shirt pocket. All the while he would act as if he was trying to get every one and "oh no" we almost wasted one" It never failed to make us laugh again.
With my stepsons I do the same routine, and my 6 month old baby will be getting it soon.
By the way thanks for the nice stories ladies. Great way to start a Monday. God Bless

As I was reading some of the postson Mamasource, I came across this one and had to share something i think about now that i read to my granddaughters. My grandparents lived in Florida and we went to see them every summer when i was little. I remember them a little bit. The one thing i remembe rthe most is My grandfather rocking me in his big brown rocking chair and reading to me from a blue book. Well, I was cleaning my mothers house(before she died) and came across a few things that were familiar to me but could not remember from where. Mom told me they were my grams, She handed me a book and told me it was mine. I looked in it and saw that my grams had inscribed in it. It read, Dearest J., This was your favorite book, Grampa read to you every story there was and hope that you love this book enough to read the stories to your children and grandchildren, He loved you so, and always waited patiently for your visits. Love always, Grams I have read almost every story to my boys as they were growing up and read them to my granddaughters juliana and angelina now. The book is faded and falling apart but with scotch tape and love its still hanging around for me and hopefully for them to enjoy for many years to come.

Hi L., I'm sitting here in tears ... for you & for me. My grandmother has been gone 20 yrs, and that emptiness never goes away. I was very close to her, in fact she raised me. My son was about the same age as yours is now when gram passed. But he swears he knows her. Keep photos & stories fresh in your kids minds. I swear she has been our guardian angel. I'm sitting here thinking of all the things she'd do. She wasn't a well educated woman, married at 18 and had 9 children, but at the age of 60 she went back and got her GED. God bless her. She would tell us the importance of education. She'd play games with us, like alphabatize the states and then name their capitols. She would list the books of the bible. Of course, she would make us do the same & then after awhile, she'd time us. She'd say the alphabet forwards, then backwards. She would take a word and we would have to make as many words as we could out of it...long before these games were out on the market. She was genius in disguise : ) My son is in the Air Force, he's coming home for Easter and when talking about what to eat, he said, be sure & make grandma Jones' macaroni salad. Grandma lives on in our lives in so many ways and yours will too. My thoughts and prays are with you, I know this is a very difficult time. My son helped me through her passing, as I'm sure your will as well. . . . D.