At first I thought there would be no blog update tonight! Yikes! Earlier there was a bad storm which knocked out my cable, phone, and internet. So I sat in the living room just talking with my parents for awhile. Then when my internet finally was fixed two hours later, I was excited to start writing a new blog! Yay! But when I got up to my room I could NOT think of a single thing to write! I thought I had hit a dry spell. Not the end of the world but very annoying.
Then my eyes fell on something. A book I hadn't looked at in awhile. A lightbulb went off in my head! Yes! I knew what my new blog would be! I would like to share my most precious memory of my grandma.
When I was very little, there was a little ritual she and I would do everytime I came over to her house. She had this box of toys for the grandkids to play with when they visited and inside was a single book. (The one pictured at left.) My grandma and I would sit on the couch together. Sometimes I would lay down and she would cover me with the afgan. Then she would read me that book. I loved it. The voice she used when she read it would always make me laugh! I don't know how many times she read that book to me, but it was a lot. I always asked her to read it when I was at her house. I never forgot it.
When I was grown up, I think it was when I was in high school, I went to the grocery store with my mom. When we walked by the little section of kids books, I saw it! The very same book my grandma always used to read to me! Of course I had to buy it because that is my favorite memory of her. Now I can look at it whenever I want and remember that wonderful time I spent with her and how good it made me feel. Those are the kind of things that stay with you even when that person is gone. Even at 33 I still love to read that book and it still makes me laugh! Sometimes it's almost as if I can hear my grandma reading it to me. That is just one more memory that keeps her close to me. Her love will always be there.
Then my eyes fell on something. A book I hadn't looked at in awhile. A lightbulb went off in my head! Yes! I knew what my new blog would be! I would like to share my most precious memory of my grandma.
When I was very little, there was a little ritual she and I would do everytime I came over to her house. She had this box of toys for the grandkids to play with when they visited and inside was a single book. (The one pictured at left.) My grandma and I would sit on the couch together. Sometimes I would lay down and she would cover me with the afgan. Then she would read me that book. I loved it. The voice she used when she read it would always make me laugh! I don't know how many times she read that book to me, but it was a lot. I always asked her to read it when I was at her house. I never forgot it.
When I was grown up, I think it was when I was in high school, I went to the grocery store with my mom. When we walked by the little section of kids books, I saw it! The very same book my grandma always used to read to me! Of course I had to buy it because that is my favorite memory of her. Now I can look at it whenever I want and remember that wonderful time I spent with her and how good it made me feel. Those are the kind of things that stay with you even when that person is gone. Even at 33 I still love to read that book and it still makes me laugh! Sometimes it's almost as if I can hear my grandma reading it to me. That is just one more memory that keeps her close to me. Her love will always be there.
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