A Grandparents smile that is....
Call it emotional, sentimental, whatever you want, but lately I've been thinking about my grandparents. Maybe it's because I think about our parents being grandparents to our little one, and I pray they can experience and remember things with them like I do with my grandparents.
You see, I don't have any of my grandparents with me here on earth anymore. I have relived in my mind lately everything about them. Memories, laughs, things that just remind me of them, and mostly their smiles!! :)
I will find pictures and scan them one day but in the meantime, just use your imagination.
Grandma and Grandpa (My mom's parents)
Grandma - she was so talented. Crafty. She could knit, crotchet, needlepoint, paint, make porcelain dolls, sew, you name it she could make it. She cooked. She played the piano and organ and had an amazing voice! Her laugh was contagious and loud. She gave lots of hugs. She taught me how to cross stitch, and always had a project we could work on together. She made clothes for all our dolls. She was an amazing gardener. She use to say it was bc she talked to her plants. You had to prune and talk to them! Doesn't work for me, but she was amazing! She had the prettiest gardens and rose bushes at all their homes.
Her smile.....Big! Mostly with an open mouth bc she was smiling so hard or laughing! With Bright Blue Eyes!
Grandpa - so talented and crafty as well. He was an engineer, so if you could dream it, he could build it! He built my sister and my first play house, my brother a HUGE skate board ramp. He always was on the boat on the lake. He taught me how to ski. He worked for GE and was on the team that invented the self cleaning oven! So when you clean your oven, think of him! :) He was actually pretty quiet. But VERY organized. He used to always tell us, "Don't monkey with it." meaning not to put our grimy hands on all his stuff in his workroom! HA! He'd rarely say he loved you. When I would tell him, "I Love you" he would smile, close his eyes, and shake his head yes. I knew he loved me too! Even though, he didn't say it much.
His smile....short, mostly closed mouthed kind of smirk. With the most beautiful blue/grey sparkly eyes. His eyes smiled for him. :) He was Very handsome.
Grandmother and Granddaddy (my dad's parents)
Grandmother - active! wow! that woman could run laps around me when I was 10, no joke. She was a PE teacher. She put on my rollerblades when she was 70. She used to play hockey with us, with a pin cushion as the hockey puck. Do handstands in the lake, go ice skating with us and teach us how to twirl. She and my Granddaddy were avid tennis players. She played up until the day she couldn't stand anymore. She taught me how to ballroom dance. And was BIG on our southern manners. She also had the Longest hair! You wouldn't know it, as she always had it rolled into a very tight low bun. But when we would stay with them, she would let me brush her hair. Her hair was all grey and was almost to her bum! Yes, that long!
Her Smile....perfectly straight, always with lipstick on(sometimes on her teeth :)). Very poised, southern, and proper.
Granddaddy - he was funny! Always telling a joke or pulling a prank. He had some of the craziest things, like a remote controlled robot with a serving tray we called Cousin It, that brought everyone drinks! He was a Business Man, a Treasurer. He used to do this trick that he was pulling off his thumb and when I was little it always looked real. He taught me how to hang a spoon on my nose. How to play pool. How to shoot a gun. He always had this coin "egg" that you squeezed and it opened. Every Sunday at church I'd run to find him to get my dime for a doughnut and my quarter for my coke from the old school coke machine. Our church had one of the old school machines that served the 8oz glass coke bottles and then you recycled the bottle next to the machine. I look just like him! :)
His smile....crooked. He smiled with a mischiveous crooked smile, like he was hiding his laugh out of the corner of his mouth.
I will never forget their smiles! I was close to all my grandparents and miss them! :( But I LOVE remembering the memories!
I hope you remember smiles!
Call it emotional, sentimental, whatever you want, but lately I've been thinking about my grandparents. Maybe it's because I think about our parents being grandparents to our little one, and I pray they can experience and remember things with them like I do with my grandparents.
You see, I don't have any of my grandparents with me here on earth anymore. I have relived in my mind lately everything about them. Memories, laughs, things that just remind me of them, and mostly their smiles!! :)
I will find pictures and scan them one day but in the meantime, just use your imagination.
Grandma and Grandpa (My mom's parents)
Grandma - she was so talented. Crafty. She could knit, crotchet, needlepoint, paint, make porcelain dolls, sew, you name it she could make it. She cooked. She played the piano and organ and had an amazing voice! Her laugh was contagious and loud. She gave lots of hugs. She taught me how to cross stitch, and always had a project we could work on together. She made clothes for all our dolls. She was an amazing gardener. She use to say it was bc she talked to her plants. You had to prune and talk to them! Doesn't work for me, but she was amazing! She had the prettiest gardens and rose bushes at all their homes.
Her smile.....Big! Mostly with an open mouth bc she was smiling so hard or laughing! With Bright Blue Eyes!
Grandpa - so talented and crafty as well. He was an engineer, so if you could dream it, he could build it! He built my sister and my first play house, my brother a HUGE skate board ramp. He always was on the boat on the lake. He taught me how to ski. He worked for GE and was on the team that invented the self cleaning oven! So when you clean your oven, think of him! :) He was actually pretty quiet. But VERY organized. He used to always tell us, "Don't monkey with it." meaning not to put our grimy hands on all his stuff in his workroom! HA! He'd rarely say he loved you. When I would tell him, "I Love you" he would smile, close his eyes, and shake his head yes. I knew he loved me too! Even though, he didn't say it much.
His smile....short, mostly closed mouthed kind of smirk. With the most beautiful blue/grey sparkly eyes. His eyes smiled for him. :) He was Very handsome.
Grandmother and Granddaddy (my dad's parents)
Grandmother - active! wow! that woman could run laps around me when I was 10, no joke. She was a PE teacher. She put on my rollerblades when she was 70. She used to play hockey with us, with a pin cushion as the hockey puck. Do handstands in the lake, go ice skating with us and teach us how to twirl. She and my Granddaddy were avid tennis players. She played up until the day she couldn't stand anymore. She taught me how to ballroom dance. And was BIG on our southern manners. She also had the Longest hair! You wouldn't know it, as she always had it rolled into a very tight low bun. But when we would stay with them, she would let me brush her hair. Her hair was all grey and was almost to her bum! Yes, that long!
Her Smile....perfectly straight, always with lipstick on(sometimes on her teeth :)). Very poised, southern, and proper.
Granddaddy - he was funny! Always telling a joke or pulling a prank. He had some of the craziest things, like a remote controlled robot with a serving tray we called Cousin It, that brought everyone drinks! He was a Business Man, a Treasurer. He used to do this trick that he was pulling off his thumb and when I was little it always looked real. He taught me how to hang a spoon on my nose. How to play pool. How to shoot a gun. He always had this coin "egg" that you squeezed and it opened. Every Sunday at church I'd run to find him to get my dime for a doughnut and my quarter for my coke from the old school coke machine. Our church had one of the old school machines that served the 8oz glass coke bottles and then you recycled the bottle next to the machine. I look just like him! :)
His smile....crooked. He smiled with a mischiveous crooked smile, like he was hiding his laugh out of the corner of his mouth.
I will never forget their smiles! I was close to all my grandparents and miss them! :( But I LOVE remembering the memories!
I hope you remember smiles!
This post made me smile... :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great job you did describing our grandparents - I might just have to steal your post for my memories! Great job - loved it!
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