Extraordinary Left

I cleaned up my phone and this is the only pic of Grandmother that was on it!
Words cannot describe the emptiness I have felt since I found out Wednesday that my beloved Grandmother Georgia past on to be with her king. I have been surrounded by love with this loss. I am so grateful for those who know how hard this is for me. You see, my GG and I were more than close we were best friends who adored each other!! I spent a huge amount of time at her house when I was young and her belief and value system is imprinted in me. My memories with her are very vivid in my mind and I can only hope I can keep them long enough to pass on to my babies. She would take me on picnics all the time! We would walk to the cliffs or river and lay out our basket and have tea, sliced tomatoes with pepper and salt, ham sandwiches with lettuce, chips, and there was always a dessert! I laugh because when I take my kids on picnic it is alway a opportunity for photo ops! Grandmother savored every moment with me and gave nothing else her attention.
Every meal and snack was an event. We used cloth napkins, coasters, never paper plates, and place mats! We sat at the table and ate together.
She read and told me zillions of stories fiction and nonfiction.
She never made me feel like a inconvenience. I was the most important person when I was in her presence.
She taught me how to cook although I still call her weekly for a tip and in the last few years I have had the op to share them with her.
She taught me to be a hard worker and to do whatever I am doing to the best of my ability.
Most of all she taught me the importance of education, love for learning, desire for reading and all this in the days where research didn't support these teachings!! She was brilliant!!
Hot chocolate by the fire!
Scrabble tournaments
Old Maid card games
Math lessons
Flat woods church house
Catfish fries at MLs house(her bro she is buried by)
She thought I was the most amazing singer ever and I can't carry a tune!!
Long walks on the look out for mean dogs
Her clock always chiming
Lonesome Dove
Country Music
Charleston Dance(she taught me)
She quoted poems and play lines from her early childhood at this last Thanksgiving. She knew her sibling's lines too!!
She was classy humble and kind. She pushed her family to do their very best. If you know her family, you will see they did!! A successful group in deed!
She never ever told a lie! It was absolutely unacceptable to lie.
She came from nothing to something and she was extraordinary. She is loved admired and missed.
Our picnic place!





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