Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Grandma,
You choose to be apart of my life and my family's lives. I love you forever and always. Here are a few of my most favorite memories of you throughout the years.
1. Easter egg hunts in your yard
2. Your never-ending hugs
3. Dying Easter eggs with grandpa and you
4. Eating Easter dinner at the big table, with Warren, Rita, and Soph
5. How much you tell me you love
6. Because I feel the same way
7. Tootise rolls
8. Grandpa’s white, ceramic Christmas tree, pretty in pink
9. The Christmas tree town grandpa painted
10. Christmas Eves
11. The bed with the rolling drawers where Barbies were sleeping
12. The camo blanket from the closet by the stairs
13. Building forts
14. Peanut butter fudge
15. Picking me up from school
16. Teaching me how to make French toast
17. Grandpa’s apple pie
18. Peanut butter cookies
19. You taught me how to cook
20. You always listen
21. Hamm’s Beer
22. Your beautiful crystal glasses
23. Ceramic figurines
24. Your bulkhead and all of the snakes hidden under the rocks
25. Conversations about ugly Hollywood dresses
26. Smutty magazines
27. Freezer cookies
28. Your tater tot casserole
29. Your delicious casserole meals as we sat around the table
30. Grandpa’s treasure trove of tools
31. The candy drawer
32. Downstairs sleepovers
33. Conversations on the hill
34. The cabin
35. Grandpa and you let me bury my cat, Ernie
36. Hidden games with friends in the cabin forest
37. Summer conversations with the slider open
38. Rescuing me from my brother
39. Calling my family on their bullshit
40. Bear and how much he loved you
41. Salem and Doyle, your adopted cats on the deck rail
42. Fudge tins
43. Your beautiful tea cups
44. Binoculars and spying on the golf course
45. Love of laughing at grandpa and dad’s follies
46. Crystal glass of candy
47. Swedish fish
48. The beautiful cards you send
49. Paper-Mache lessons
50. Paper-Mache making Christmas boxes with you
51. When you surprised us and came out for a swim
52. Stories about Vashon
53. Picture memory conversations about grandpa
54. Talking to you at the bar in the kitchen
55. The swivel stools in your kitchen
56. Bon fires at the cabin
57. Donuts for Bear
58. Grandpa being pissed at the deer for eating the carrots
59. Rhubarb from your garden
60. Wood chopping
61. Helping you haul wood downstairs
62. Trusty
63. Trusty’s Newspaper toys
64. Grandpa’s newspaper roll for Trusty
65. Sleepovers with Ashley and Sophie
66. The grey Cadillac
67. Your holiday window stickers always make me smile
68. Christmas lights on your house
69. The beautiful Christmas tree
70. The infamous basement storage room
71. Smells of grandpa crafting in the basement
72. Your ability to always laugh at stupidity
73. Your kind heart
74. Grandpa’s collection of random assortments
75. The wedding ring you still wear
76. Your Christmas wrapping and bow expertise (I know it was originally grandpa’s thing)
77. Wheel of Fortune dresses
78. Playing Jeopardy with you
79. Evening conversations in your and grandpa’s chairs
80. Our weekly phone calls
81. Jonathan, the seagull
82. Birthday pies
83. When you and grandpa came to my performances
84. Mowing your yard and the hill
85. You choose me as your family
86. You choose to share your life with me
87. You choose to love me
88. You choose to laugh me
89. You choose to smile with me
90. And for these reasons… I love you
You will forever and always be in my heart. I miss you dearly.
