Posted: November 6, 2009 at 1:50 pm | Tags: family, food, friendship, help, love, service, Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is my favorite time of the year. (See the November message on the home page and the link to make a Thankful Turkey.)
When I was a child, our family went to my Aunt Gwen’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. My dad always made the fruit salad and Aunt Gwen always had made her fabulous apple pies. My parents made a fruitcake (their fruitcake recipe is the best. It is the only fruitcake that I would eat. It had only enough cake batter to hold the ingredients together, and it had many more pecans than fruit pieces.) The feast was phenomenal. When we were done cleaning up and doing the dishes, we would play a game of football in Uncle Warren’s front yard. I don’t remember who won, I just remember how much love I felt. As we grew older and could drive a car, the teenagers would often go to a movie on Thanksgiving afternoon. We just loved being together! Isn’t that what family is all about, loving being together? How grateful I am for my family. Even though we are now separated by miles and the “ busy-ness” of things, we still love each other and will do anything we can to help one another.
It would be fun to hear about your family. Can you share a family story under comments today. It is easy and all of us who read the blog will love to hear your Thanksgiving stories.
Posted: October 31, 2009 at 9:54 pm | Tags: children, family, grandchildren, grandparents, Halloween, home, love, mother, Trick or treat
Today is Halloween. As a child, I loved Halloween, most likely because my mother loved Halloween! We usually had a store bought costume until we were old enough to come up with ideas of our own.
One of my favorite memories of Halloween was when I was growing up in South Carolina. We lived in a house that was on a very busy road. On the opposite side of the road were many neighborhoods. My mother always was the parent who took us “trick or treating”. We would go from house to house until we were so tired we were ready to go home. My mother was the master encourager. She believed we could go farther than we ever thought imaginable. She pushed us just a little more. The prize was worth all the effort.
Pushing onward and forward has become a part of me. I learned that we “pick ourselves up by our boot straps” when we fall and “keep moving forward”. No matter what is happening “our ship is always coming in.”
Tonight, we will celebrate Halloween. We will go to our daughter’s home where we will have a birthday celebration for her son and then I will stay to give out “treats” while our children help her with her children as they go around the neighborhood. They will sing and talk and laugh and just enjoy being together. Isn’t that what life is all about?
Posted: October 28, 2009 at 4:29 pm | Tags: family, grandchildren, grandma, Halloween, home, love
Welcome to our grandparents blog. We invite grandparents to be our guest bloggers. Go to the Contact us page and enter your information and join us as a guest blogger.
This blog is to share our successes, our hopes, our dreams and our well learned knowlege about being a grandparent. Each day, we learn new ways to look at the world by participating in the lives of our grandchildren.
Sunday, some of our grandchildren were visiting with us after church. My six year old grandson said, “Mormor, do you want to be a ninja for Halloween?” I replied that I did not want to dress in a costume this year. He was not discouraged and proceeded to tell me all about his ninja costume. His excitement was contagious!
We love Halloween at our house. It is also our oldest grandson’s birthday. (We talk to our babies before they are born. I tried to convince him before he was born to come on the 30th instead of Halloween, but undoubtedly he didn’t listen.) So, we always have beautiful Halloweeen birthday cakes to celebrate the day. The whole country celebrates on his birthday. Then we participate in a church activity or trick or treating in their neighborhood.
As a grandparent, do you dress up? Do you give out candy? What are your family’s Halloween traditions? Please share them with us by making a comment.
Posted: October 8, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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Posted: October 8, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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