Grandma Carmen

Happy Birthday Grandma Carmen! She sure loved a party, hell she was the party! If she was alive today she would have turned "99" today. I sure miss her a lot! The more I age, the more I miss her. She was my "mom" she raised me for my first 12 years. And there are sure things I would love to talk to her about now. As I have some world wisdom behind me.

Her life was something else! She saw horse & carriages to Cars, airplanes to rockets, unbelievable things! She was married by the time she was 11, had her first kid at 12. By the time she was in her 40s she had been married 3 times and continued to have 9 kids! 10 if you count me. When she died 9 of us were still alive. She did loose a child under a year old in 1941 along with her second husband, they died of TB. If you want to see a photo of her, check out the entry on June 6th called Remembering, that is her having tea with me!

The ironic thing that happened today was getting notified that Hooter's ashes were at our vet's office, and ready for us to pick up. Michael says symmetry of life that Hooter is ready on her birthday, and I like to think she was watching out for me and saying she is with her...I know to some people that just sounds nuts. I don't care what other people think about that! This is my experience!

Our life is the apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn, that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comments

[soren]

wow... i know people used to get married young, but isn't that EXTRA young?!! she sounds cool

[Gypsy]

I thought it was child abuse and told her so when she was still alive. Back then they were mainly family arranged marriages...and the really horrible thing was that her first husband was actually 33 years old whe she married him! They had two children before he died.

She was really cool too! She taught me a lot, how to be a woman and child like as well…never lose the fun in life!