My Grandmother
Some of my most precious memories were spent with my Grandmother. We had a language barrier because she was French and from Canada and a hearing barrier because she went completely deaf at age 18. But our HEARTS spoke to each other loud and clear!
I spent a lot of my free time with her gardening, sewing, and having tea and cookies sitting by the fireplace. I will never forget the time she was teaching me how to make my first quilt. I was about 9 yrs old.
She had me pull the string to lower the ladder going up into her attic. I was so excited. I had never been in an attic in my life. She motioned I would find some boxes of fabric and to pick out some. I can still smell the attic and see all the old hats, winter coats, and huge boxes of old clothes and fabrics. My first quilt was a simple one made of 5 inch squares of a vast variety of colorful fabrics.
My Grandmother lived to be 97 yrs old and she taught me so much about life, and love, and patience, understanding, and giving all without hardly a word spoken!
- Posted by renarussin
- Feb 4, 2015
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