A Grandmother by any other name is a very special woman. We all have had two. What were yours like? What did you call them?
I actually had three although I never knew my maternal grandmother. She died soon after my parents were married. By all accounts she was a strong-willed woman and she raised two beautiful daughters. After her death, my grandmother’s sister, Anne, married my Granddaddy. She’s the one I remember. Mamie Anne. She was feisty and stylish. I loved playing at her house on Clement Hill.
My daddy’s mama was Grandmother. She made the best pimiento cheese in the whole world and I loved eating at her table. She and Pappy had a small house on Pine Lane. It was always fun going there and playing with my cousins who lived down the way. Grandmother loved the Lord and my husband (because he watched The Guiding Light, too, and could talk about it with her).
Sometimes I’ll see a vintage glass or an antique piece of furniture or a throw rug that will take me back to my grandmothers’ houses. Certain smells and sounds will take me there, too. But I will always remember how much Grandmother and Mamie Anne loved me and my sisters. They were the best.
Even though my grandmothers are gone, their legacy is alive in me, my sisters, our children and our grandchildren. Their tenacity. Their beauty. Their wisdom. Their prayers and blessings. I hope that one day my grandchildren will remember me with love and joy for what I’m giving them every day.
LORD, Thank you for my Grandmothers and for using them to show me what maturity looks like. Help me to be available for those around me who need some grandmotherly perspective and unconditional love. May they see you through me.
My name to my grandchildren is Nana.
ReplyDeleteI'm called Noni
ReplyDeleteMy sister is Nonie. That’s what my aunts used to call their sister, Leona.
DeleteI am honored to have my grandchildren call me the same name their fathers called their grandmother (and my mother): Mamaw. Patience, you have such a lovely way of wording your posts. Happy Mother's Day, Grammy.
ReplyDeleteMy mother was and my other sister is Mamaw.
ReplyDeleteI only had one grandmother living and I called her Ma.I loved her dearly and loved spending time with her in their old pre-civil war home home. She taught me a lot of
ReplyDeleteMy name to our GrandBlessings is “MJ”, short for Mama Jen.🥰
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