Posted on 09/07/2011 11:14:03 AM PDT by AAABEST
After my grandfather died my grandmother lived alone on the family farm for 18 years. My father and uncle saw here every morning and evening as they worked the farm, but she stayed alone most of the time at night.
She had a mind of here own.
In the evenings she would normally receive phone calls from a few widows about her age that she had known since childhood.
One evening when Reagan was running for the 2nd term (my grandmother was in her 80’s then) she received a call from one of those women. She said: “Mildred, you are not going to vote for that old Republican are you? Your ancestors would roll over in their grave if they knew you were.” My grandmother replied: “Yes, I am voting for Reagan, and my ancestors were smart enough to see what was happening around them and would have done the same thing.”
I was always proud of her spunk.
I hope your grandmother and mama get to talk politics in heaven. (I’m not sure I really hope that, because I don’t know how much we know about the Earth in Heaven. But if Mama’s still Mama, and knows about/talks about the Earth at all, she’s probably still talking politics.
I grew up next door to my grandparents on the farm. As a child I could have thrown a rock between the houses. I ate more meals in my grandparents home than in my own. There were 7 of us who ate 2 meals together daily and worked together on the farm.
I moved away after college and was gone for about 25 years. About 15 years ago I moved back, but traveled extensively in my job.
When my grandmother was 96 she had a heart attack and the doctors told her that she could no longer stay alone at night. My wife and I spent every night with her and fixed her meals and took care of her med’s for a year (age 96-97). When she was 97 my son had a fall from his cutting horse and we handed my grandmother off to my father and mother to care for (she moved to town with them and was never happy again). They had her for about 8 months and she was in a rest home for a few months after that. She was 98 when she died.
My wife was my grandmother’s favorite.
My grandmother taught me to hoe cotton, swim in a dirt tank, go fishing, kill rattlesnakes and to appreciate her practical jokes. I truly miss her.
Now, I miss her, too!
The memories are what we leave behind, even more than our DNA, that’s what makes us human. We are the only species having this conversation!
If you’re interested: Mama’s last lesson
https://lifeethics.wordpress.com/2007/04/08/mamas-last-lesson/
I appreciate your link.
My mother-in-law has lived with my wife and I for 1-1/2 years. She has not walked a step in 2 years. She has suffered 4 strokes, a fall that cracked a vertebrae, congestive heart failure, has a pacemaker. She is 89.
I cared for she and my father-in-law for 4-1/2 years prior to loosing my father-in-law to Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. At the time I lived and worked away from home, they were in Amarillo.
My grandmother and father-in-law had Alzheimer’s. I know what that is about.
My mother-in-law has some dementia, but part of the time she is pretty aware of things. My mother also has some form of dementia. (She and my father live on their own, but I see them every day)
My 36 year old son has crippling illness, and we help him daily.
This type of thing is what family is about.
Amen and God bless you!
And thank you for the theme of my latest blog post.
http://wingright.org/2011/09/08/yellow-dogs-splitting-hairs-and-being-human/
Lol, thanks. That’s where I get many of my slideshow pictures!
That’s a load of crock! Our jails are overloaded and overcrowded with illegals waiting to be deported! WHY do you think Perry sent a $349/MILLION bill to the feds for housing them?
From what democratic rag are you getting all these lies about Perry I am seeing you post?
Do you SERIOUSLY think Sarah Palin would be agreeable to paying for and putting up a fence around 1200 miles of Alaskan wilderness where there’s absolutely nobody around to stop anybody from crawling over it? Has anybody bothered to ask her that? Has Sarah Palin ever been to the south Texas border and seen the 1200 mile expanse of NOWHERE, where the only thing that going to stop somebody from crossing is armed boots on the ground?
We could build a 90 foot tall fence on that border and now you tell me WHO, IS GOING TO STOP SOMEBODY CLIMBING OVER IT? Lizzards, horney toads and tumble weeds?
Did you not see the grand Arizona fence on PBS yesterday where the illegals took less than five minutes with a pair of tin snips and cut a hole big enough to crawl through two double layers of solid roofing tin fence?
STOP THE LIES! Stop this madness now. You haven’t a clue what you’re even talking about!
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