Well I called Grandma today to wish her a great Christmas, and I waited because I thought the book I made her at Blurb wouldn't get there until today! But they got it to her by the 24th!!! SO she had it to show off to every one at the parties she went to!
I had pictures of Michael and I, his kids, my kids, and those of me with some of my art. She was SO excited about the book, and no one could believe I put it together and sent it to her! I was SO happy that she was happy and laughing!
She said she had ran and found a photo of her mother, her sister, and her at the same age I am along with an aunt on my grandfathers side and that I look like all of them! Now I can't wait to see that! She said to me, see Carmelita, you are NOT an alien! You belong to this family! I can't tell you what those words meant to me! It was fantastic to hear from her and she will make copies of them and send them soon! I can't wait to see it! LOL
She was just so tickled that we looked so much alike! AND how much my son looks like my dad! People were amazed at it!
That is the problem with fractured families...some times you don't really know where you come from because they weren't around you...it is delightful to find out!
So here is a funny story she told me tonight...it was May 8, 1937, and it was her wedding day, it was HOT, she was getting mad...seems my grandfather felt it was MORE important to listen to the Kentucky Derby with the other men...she almost walked out of her wedding! The first thing the priest asked was Leonard, did you win any money? AND my grandmother said NO and he almost LOST a bride!
LOL that is the most hysterical family story I have heard in a long long time! I know I get a lot of my sarcastic bend from her! It must be genetic! LOL
Great story!
She tells me she has the hat she got married in, in the attic some where! I am hoping that she makes my dad find it and send it back out to me!!! I hope I hope I hope! I have her gloves that her oldest sister Jacia made for her 16th birthday, they are crocheted beautifully, white and yellow! I would love the hat!
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