tribute to grandma

Yesterday I came across pickett's post about her grandmother's. I was so touched that I could think of nothing else going to sleep and when I woke up it was still there. Her words were so beautiful that I think I could feel an arm around me. So all morning I was thinking of my own grandmother. I only had one, my father's mother died when he was 12. I lived with her from the time I was born until 13. My father was hooked on drugs and my mother divorced him. so my Grandmother was like a mother also. I had my first daughter at 17 and with out her helping us buy formula and diapers I don't know what we would have done. She gave advice and never ever judged anyone. She survived the depression, lost her father at 11, grew up hungry. often eating oats by the handful because she knew they expanded and would fill her stomache up. She lived with an achoholic husband. And had several members of her family live with her. She had several heartattacks in her life with a bypass surgery at 55. At 71 has another this time she never fully recovered. On December 12 while everyone was christmas shopping she fell in the bathroom and passed away. We don't know what happened we did not want an autopsy. I miss her everyday and feel very robbed she died so young. She always told me to never forget who I am and where I come from. And that we have blue blood. lol she was an example to live by and will never ever be forgotten. love ya gram!!!!