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Mimi

My grandma past away in October 21st 2021 This is what I wrote for her memorial:  Mimi.  Putting up us grand kids and our grand adventures as pilgrims and Indians on Thanksgiving. Dress up in the basement with the costumes she'd made for our parents years before and reminders to wash our hands before every meal. Ice cream every night after dinner with nesquick powder or chocolate syrup if that's what you wanted. Sneaking into the kitchen to get a pickle from the fridge without getting caught. I only got away with it twice. The never ending supply of jolly ranchers in the cookie jar and the lion cookie jar that always said: " keep your hand out my cookie jar." Eating all the date bars and fudge she set out at Christmas time and hearing her clear her throat as she cooked in the kitchen. How she grew to love our silly dog Chloe. She loved that dog and that dog loved her. The kids table at holidays tha even as an adult I still sit at and singing hymns in the family room o...