Dear Claire, Ada, Macy, Elena, Adele, and Nola, and any granddaughters yet to come…
This weekend will be Mother’s Day, and I’m celebrating it by telling you about some of the wonderful mothers in your lineage. I can only tell you about the ones on this branch of the tree and only as far back as my memory goes. But that’s enough to prove you are made of good stuff. Your Grandmas Cheri, Joyce, and Nita can fill in the the branches that remain.
If you grow up to love flower gardens someday, that will be from your Granny Grubbs, and if you always make it a point to speak to every single person at church on Sunday mornings, that will be from your Great-Grandma Adair. If you love to pray for hours at a time, thank Great-Grandma Nickerson, and if you rear a fine brood of children who influence the world for the Kingdom of God, you’ll be following in the footsteps of Great-Grandma Pitts.
If you are extra-nice to everyone you meet, that will be the influence of my mother, Grandma Boo; and if you sing in the church choir more than sixty years, you will take after your grandpa’s mother, Grandma-Great. And if you love your own little granddaughters so much you think your heart might burst just thinking about them, well, that’s from me.
Love,
Gramma Kathy
I have to stop reading your posts at my desk first thing in the morning. I always tear up and people wonder why I’m crying…
I know the girls will cherish this. I don’t really know much about any of my grandparents because everyone has already passed on. No one wrote anything down and I was too young to remember hearing any stories that were told.
Oh gosh. Mom! I was just telling Michael how something is wrong with me because I cry at the dumbest, strangest little things. (Usually happy ones – not sad). So this little post just sent me right over the edge. I’m never recovering now.
I love this post! I am partial to Grandma Kathy and Grandma Virginia. I also remember Granny Grubbs’ chocolate angel food cake and Grandma Adair as being a very dignified lady. Thanks for sharing your grandmothers with me! Lots of love to you on Mother’s Day.
This post is lovely! I think these granddaughters are very blessed to be born into such a loving family!