Oct 31 2007
Today is Halloween…
…and, during my childhood, it meant that today was my (maternal) Grandmother’s birthday. In fact, today would be her 86th birthday; sadly, she passed away in June of 1993 and not a day goes by when I don’t think of her & Paw Paw and how much they meant to me as a kid. I often wonder how adolescence might have been different had they been around to shower love & lessons upon me. And I often wonder how my brother’s lives might have been different had they spent more time with their grandparents. For instance, my baby brother was 5 when Paw Paw died & 6 when Grandma died — even now, he lives vicariously through the rest of us when we reminisce about the days, weeks, months, and years of memories created at 3925 4th Street in Port Arthur, TX.
I wish I had some pictures to show you, but, until my Mother can ever get her scanner working & learn to post those pictures onto her blog, I will leave you with this — my mother’s fond memorial to her mother on her birthday.
I love you Grandma!
UPDATE! Thankfully, my brothers and/or my father was able to assist my mother with uploading a picture of my grandmother, a picture that you can also view on her blog. However, I couldn’t resist stealing it for mine. This photo was taken on October 31st of either 1986 or 1987 — aka a time before Andrew would have had to have been in school during the day. Enjoy!
(L-R) J. Andrew Newton as Felix the Cat & Jessie B. McMahon Adams as Witch Hazel; circa 1986-87
October 31st, 2007 at 22:04
NOW — I still may not know how to post a pix, but that is why I keep technologically-able men in my life. (there are lots of reasons I have all of these sons…) If you will return to my blog, you will see a pix of the one-n-only Witch Hazel with Felix the cat.
Thanks, again. And you’re so right… they had so much to offer you boys as grandparents. They were truly great. They loved you boys so much. Timing is everything. And I will never truly understand it… It’s the glass darkly kinda thing
mama