Grandparents, Cousins and the Lot

 Here I go again...

stealing from someone's blog

for me to blog about!

haha

In Debby's Friday 

Just Breathe (skyesofblue.blogspot.com)

blog 

she did a question / answer

thing and one of the questions she

asked was, "Growing up, did you 

spend a lot of time with your grandparents?

  

I wanted to address that question.

Not as much as I wished I 

had. My grands on my mom's 

side lived in Georgia and we lived 

in TN. 

When I was young that trip

was made once a year as 

a family.

As a teen, Daddy stayed home, 

Ray was in college and Mark

and I would make that trip

with mom. 

As a child when we went to 

visit, mom usually visited with

granny more than us kids,

we had cousins!

My granddaddy worked for a 

drive in. Running the reel at

night and cleaning the parking

spaces the next day.

Saw Gone with the Wind

from the top of the building that

granddaddy was in shining the

movie on the screen.

Helped cleaning that parking

lot too.

I loved my granddaddy so much.

He would come in after work,

granny would warm up his 

dinner and he would sit 

in the kitchen eating, 

I would go in and 

visit. He would sing 

"Hey, good looking, 

what you got cooking",

to me.

He would also address me as 

String Bean 

I was tall for my age and skinny.

Lost him when I was in the 9th

grade to lung cancer.

My granny.

My granny would ask me,

if we were coming down in 

Feb to visit, what kind of

cake I wanted for my bday.

I always wanted her 

choc cream pie.

Oh my gosh...

so good.

She would also fix

me a banana sandwich.

She made the best ones.

How can they be better than

any banana sandwich,

the mayo.......

LOTS OF IT.

Bananas cut long ways,

lots of bananas and 

covered in mayo.

When we visited, all the 

aunts, uncles and cousins 

would come for Sunday dinner.

DO NOT JUDGE THE PICS
I SHARE TODAY...

I was young and had a Kodak camera

but I was not good at 

catching those good shots that

I can get now.

Left to right ~

my mom in front

behind her is Uncle Don, oldest

next to mom, my granny,

next to granny, Aunt Donna,

next to Donna is my 

aunt Martha and the head

between them belongs to my

Uncle Paul, the youngest,

and next to them

Aunt Carolyn.

The only aunt missing 

is my aunt Alice.

This is a pic of granny

and Alice.

All lived near my grands 

except us and my uncle Don.

But he only lived about an hour

away. 

I was a lot older when I lost

my granny than my granddaddy,

I was married with a child.

There are only three left now,

Aunt Donna, Aunt Martha

and Uncle Paul which are the three

youngest.

(look, my pics got better)

I have 17 cousins on this 

side of the family.

I have one three on dads side

but the connection is not there

with those. One I don't even know.

Taking into consideration that

there were four older kids,

and three younger, with years

between mom's siblings.

With that said, my uncle

Paul is only a yr older than

me. But unlike me, he waited

years to start a family.

His youngest daughter, my cousin

is, 42 yrs younger than me.

The oldest cousin would be Cliff,

Uncle Don's son, only I am 

not sure of his age.

I really need to make a trip to

the other side of Atlanta and visit

soon. I have not seen but a few

since Jan. 2019 for moms

funeral. 

Hopes that this spring 

brings me feeling better.

I want to jump in the car

and make some weekend trips.

Are you looking at making

plans yet for next yr?

Am I pushing it?

Pam