Family and Grandma

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Everyone goes through rough patches in their life. Some of these patches are easy to accomplish and easy to get over. Our medicine has gotten better over time, but years ago the survival rate wasn’t that good. My grandma whose name is Linda is a breast cancer survivor and also survived with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Not everyone in this world can say she has have survived cancer this many times, especially with such low survival rates. My Grandma still puts a smile on everyone faces even when she’s in pain. She makes all of her children and grandchildren beautiful quilts, so we can have something to remember her by, if something were to happen. She loves to bake. There isn’t one occasion that there won’t be some type of desert made by her. She has so many beautiful talents.

Right when I walked through the door, I got a burst of happiness. I felt safe, warm, and loved. The house smelled just like a fresh batch of moist, delicious brownies right out of the oven. There wasn't a single time I walked through the door and felt disappointed or sad. This feeling is just one of the many reasons my grandma had a huge impact on my life.

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I love it when I go to my grandma’s house it is so much fun. I love it because she always gives me good advice. All of my grandma’s stand out. She has so many lights and flowers. Her flowers a so beautiful. I love them.

My grandma became a big part of my life and no one can ever replace her or all the things she has taught me. Then, just a few years ago, I heard something that still haunts me to this day.

My Nana was a person who always claimed to appreciate the simple things in life: a hot cup of coffee, gardening, walking the dog, and the ability to laugh at oneself when things go wrong. For her 90th birthday my mother and I decided to plan her a surprise party under the premise it was just going to be the three of us, instead of two dozen family and friends.

My goal in the next 4-week is to stop eating bread in breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In fact, I could not eat anything without bread; therefore, I have 17 percent fat in my body, which is not normal. My mother has diabetes in our family and I think less consuming of bread would keep me away from diabetes. I will begin to drink more water because I have used to drink a lot of coffee and juice.

Some of my favorite moments with my grandfather were how we always did everything together. I was glad I lived with my grandparents. Stuff with my actual family weren’t the best, because they thought they couldn’t handle me. My grandfather and I had so much fun throughout the years. We enjoyed going for ice cream the most. We always had the same ice cream every once in a while, but occasionally we would change it up a little. We usually grabbed chocolate ice cream for a treat, but sometimes we would decide we want a twist ice cream. I loved spending time with my grandfather.

My grandma had been divorced since before I was born, so it took me a while to understand that when she said, “My friend, Denny, will be there,” that she really meant, “My boyfriend, Denny, will be there.” By the time my family and I had finally realized that my grandma had a boyfriend, she had a ring on her finger and a wedding date set.

Of course you always hear people talking about how great their grandmother or grandfather are, I too feel the same way about my grandmother. I see her as more than my grandmother, she’s a role mole, my best friend and also like a sister when I need her. She’s always been a loving and caring person. Not for only her friends and family, but also strangers. People she has never met a day in her life she would be willing to go give her last too. You don’t find to many people like her too often.

My grandma had survived a hard life, and yet managed to raise four responsible, well-educated, and successful children. All this she did while working as a respected psychiatric nurse and a state mental health board member. Although she had had and was still overcoming trials in life, I always knew she would be there and cared about me and my life. As my brother and I grew older and were unable to visit my grandparents as often as we

My grandmother has a very softhearted voice that I still hear telling me goodnight when we were little. She would wait with us until we fell deep asleep. And even as we got older she would gather us around the kitchen table and let us watch the old fashioned ice cream maker churn the best vanilla ice cream and then she would load it up with chocolate chips, and our parents would always say, "That's too many.", and grandmother just let us keep piling them on. My grandmother is the kind, gentle, loving, caring grandmother that I wish my children could experience today.

The relationship I have with my grandmother is one of the most amusing, affectionate, and enjoyable relationships that I have ever had, and it has been this way since the very birth of me.

I loved going to see my grandparents because everything was just so different from where I lived, and they will always be some of my favorite people to see. I would always stay in the same little guest bedroom that they had and my grandma would always try and set up the tv for me in their every time. My grandparents liked birds, they even have a clock in their kitchen that has a different bird for every hour. I never really found birds interesting but when I would sit at their kitchen table and look out the big window that overlooked part of their yard, suddenly I was interested just like them. I would watch the hummingbirds come up to the window and drink the juice that my grandma put in a feeder for them, or use a pair of my