This week, I made sure to start calling my grandmother’s as I said I would do a few weeks ago. Oops.
It might turn out to be one of my favorite things on my list. Grandma Brunt (at 92) is driving to Ohio with my uncle this week to visit my Great-Aunt Dorothy. Really? I hope I can sit in a car for 8-9 hours when I am a few weeks shy of 93 and still be able to get out of the car! I also got to hear some good stories about her taking trips to Mexico when she was younger. Both driving, one just from Arizona, one from WI with her THREE children, and the one from Arizona to a friend’s beach house on the Baja Peninsula. Anyone want to volunteer to move there so I can come visit? No offense to my friends that already live in warm weather locales, I will get there eventually.
Grandma Murphy and I had a somewht more serious discussion about money and wills, but it was still sweet. One of the items that I’m sure all of her grandchildren will want to remember Grandma by is her collection of china teacups. They are so beautiful! Nearly thirty of them, all with a different pattern and I’m sure a different story to each one. Jason isn’t sure where I will be displaying those, but I told him not to worry about it. Grandma M still lives by herself (even after bats invading her house the last two years) at 92 and those teacups won’t be leaving that house anytime soon. My plan is to go over there and get the story behind more of them when we visit next, but I did get one tidbit yesterday. Grandma M told me she started the collection when she lived in St. James, MN because her neighbors (oh, and her and grandpa were the young ones in the area) would get together for coffee on their birthdays and drink out of these great china cups. When she moved to WI, they gave her one as a going away present and she kept collecting them after that.
I’m really looking forward to learning more from both of these great women before I turn thirty. Hopefully, I will be able to add sixty plus years on to my experiences like they both have.
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