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 on holidays and family gathering. 

Loving us as our Our lives got crazy as we grew up. Going through our edgy phases and finding ourselves.Sitting with us as we sorted really life and bible questions. 

I still remember the blanket she made for me when I was little. Pink with blue hearts with a rabbit. I loved that blanket to pieces. She made so many beautiful things, which was a hobby I picked up myself and later in my life started talking to her about, along with my change of heart as I grew up and my love for Christ began to grow. Mimi and papa were the first to step up and support my love for missions and we Always had some deep conversations as we sat in their living room. Her love and knowledge of God showed in just the way she loved and how she always asked about us and our lives. She lived a Christ like life and her love for us grand kids showed. Mimi and papa also lived an example in their love and marriage that I wish to find in a spouse myself. A marriage where laughing and teasing was always heard and of course bickering. 

Now... Me and my two sisters and mom had a few unique opportunities to live with them as we grew up and those times allowed time for us to see their lives from the inside of the everyday mundane.  She was there to pick us up from school when we were sick and to get us up on the bus and to stand up to someone  playing big mama bear. She made sure our time in that house was as full of the same love and safety she and papa gave our mom and aunt and uncle. She also made sure our reading home work was done. She helped me learn to read. And I won't ever forget the delicus meals and desserts she made, yes I'm talking about her goulash and chocolate moouse. We never wanted for anything. We were never hungry and if we wanted a snack, we always asked for odd things and she provided. Frozen Peas. Yes frozen peas and birthday dinners and shopping trips. 

I have so many memories I could probably write a book. But to wrap up this up... I realize this isn't the end. That we will see her again and that her memory is something I'll carry forever in the way I love others, how I treat a future spouse, how I worship Christ in my life and how I am with family. Her life is a life I hope to be able to emulate as I continue to age and see the world change before me. It's something I will see in my family and those around me. She loved.