80 Things We Love About Mickey
1. She is a beautiful singer, and plays a mean tambourine.
2. She always cooked my eggs just the way I liked them growing up.. fried egg whites with no yolk.
3. She has pretty blue eyes.
4. She spent hours playing Memory and Hi-Ho Cherrio with my sister and me.
5. The way her face lights up when she sees Owen melts my heart.
6. She takes good care of Grandpa.
7. She says "oh, that's okay" when you say "thank you".
8. She always took us to the Sunnyside McDonald's so the hamburger man could poop us out.
9. She was a nurse, and I have nothing but respect for nurses.
10. She raised four fantastic daughters (including my mother).
Family and friends, please help me get to 80 items (shouldn't be hard!). Leave a comment with your favorite things, and number them based on the person who commented before you. Happy Birthday, Grandma! We love you!
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What a great idea Mandy!! ~K
11. Every time I talk to her she makes me feel like the simple things I've done are huge accomplishments.
12. The fact that when she was in the hospital in her coma she squeezed my hand first. I freaked. Ask my mom. (12b. That she woke up and is now celebrating her 80th!)
13. When I stay overnight I always wake up smelling bacon and coffee, and even if I've slept in and everyone has already eaten she's still in the kitchen ready to whip something up.
14. When I was a kid I called her "Chicken Gramma" (don't ask - I was weird) and she was totally ok with that. Still is.
15. Her laugh.
16. Sometimes I say or do something and then say to Paul, "Oh my god, I am turning into my mother." And then I realize that my mom is just like her mother, and when I think of it that way, I'm ok with it ;-)
17. When Mom took me out at the farm to teach me how to drive, Gramma didn't blink an eye when I came flying around the corner and almost spun out on the gravel. I, on the other hand, almost wet myself.
18. Her love of reading. I inherited it.
19. The way she dances with Grampa.
20. Her unconditional love for ALL of us.
21. Mom is happy and beautiful from the inside out.
22. Mom is a fabulous spouse, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, friend and relative as well as a loving daughter....she loves us all "just the way we are".
23. Mom is always the life of the party -- she fills the room with joy and laughter.
24. Mom makes turning 80 look awesome.
25. I'm thankful that Mom named me Sandra instead of "Cordelia" -- whew!
26. I remember the time Mom told me to go into the dark pumphouse to turn the water off -- knowing there was a frog on the handle! That was worth a good scream for me and a good laugh for Mom!
27. I remember Mom making me pretty clothes for school.
28. I learned a lot about work ethics by observing Mom.
29. I learned to take care of what I have from Mom -- "just because you don't have something new doesn't mean you shouldn't take care of it and keep it nice and clean"
30. I love the way Mom and her brothers and sisters always laugh and have a good time together.
31. Gramma put up with us dancing around and making a ruckus in the attic...
32. She handled mine and Paula's obsession of catching cats with patience and helpfulness
33. Grams always had extra gloves and hats for every single person and made sure we were all bundled up enough for the snow.
34. I have developed an obsession for Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy
35. Gramma called Micheal Dukakis, "Dookoo Poo'd in his Shoe"..
36. I have to also mention the never ending bacon supply every single morning...
37. Gramma is a bat out of hell driver if she leaves her purse at McD's...but still delivered us home safely!
38.She's a mean Scrabble player
39. Without her we wouldn't be here!
40. Gramma is the only person I know to have ever had rotten twinkies...and Paula ate it =)
31. I love how Grandma would graciously accept my dandelion bouquets (which I pulled from the lawn in Grandview)
32. I remember Grandma's lovely Marigolds.
33. I loved watching Grandma polish her white nurse shoes.
34. I really loved it when Grandma would take me to the Mode O Day in Grandview to buy me pristine white anklet socks with lace at the top to wear when I visited them on the farm. ( Yes- they did get dirty !)
35. I remember Grandma coming in our rooms on a summer night with her can of raid to kill those pesky mosquitos.
36. I marveled at how Grandma could sleep with her curlers, pins and toilet paper in her hair.
37. Grandma "baked" the best cookies which would magically appear and then disappear from her apple cookie jar.
38. I loved it when Grandma would let us "ride" the old vacuum cleaner.
39. I love how Grandma gave Steve my HS Senior portrait as a present :)
40. I love that Grandma loves me even though I am probably the only person (non vegetarian person) in the family who doesn't eat KFC fried chicken !
Hey-great minds think alike !-
So mine should be #41-#50 :)
41. Gramma makes the best fried potatoes!! I think Laura would agree.
42. Gramma always had a bowl of lemon drops waiting on the dresser when Laura and I came to spend a week there in the summer.
43. I have a beautiful jar of agates from the farm. Gramma humored me in my hunt for agates. We spent a lot of time out there.
44. She let us fix a messy breakfast for the cats in the kitchen. Great bait for catching cats.
45. I love to listen to her sing with grandpa.
46. I know that if I sit next to her in a casino. I will not be the one winning the money. How do you do it?
47. I still think you would have won Wheel of Fortune.
48. Laura and I made a paper bouquet of flowers for grandma one time. Every time we came to visit she had it in her room. I thought that was pretty cool.
49. She is fun to be around and always makes you feel special.
50.Happy Birthday Grandma. Sorry I can't make it for the party. Love you lots-Paula
51. She is a walking Miracle
52. I love it how at the dances she sometimes stands there swaying to the music and flips her skirt from side to side.
53. Bacon, bacon, bacon
54. when we went into town she would say "if you ask me for anything you will get spanking". Inevitably I would ask for something (like a grape at Ware's) and she would calmly say no. THEN you would go ALL day and at some point just when you think you got away with it she would put you over her knee and get the spanking you had been warned about!
55. I never got a spanking I did not deserve :-)
56. starting up the lawn mower under my bedroom window on a saturday morning.. "just because it's summer vacation doesn't mean you get to sleep in"
57. Her special communication skills with lawnmowers. Its scarey and funny at the same time!
58. My Mom is a good Grandmother
59. The look of humor on her face when Kelley announced " Grandma, I just don't do manual labor"
60. I became a nurse to be like my Mom
62. Nobody could make better bread than my Mom...I recall hearing the old kitchen sink squeaking and we would know Mom was kneading the bread dough.
63. My Mother is the life of this family. She is a true gift to this world and I love her "way past heaven". I am sorry that today I am not feeling well and I have to miss out on her party! I am not there BECAUSE I DO LOVE YOU! No way I would want you or Dad to catch a bug from me!Sending you xxxx's and oooo's
Cynthia
64. She's pretty.
65. She's my wife of more than 60 years now.
66. She helped on the farm.
67. I can always find new clean shorts and hankies and clothes.
68. She keeps the house clean.
69. She's a dandy hostess at the senior dances where I play.
70. She can cook a quick meal.
71. Now a days she fills my medication always on time.
72. She give me my 8 o'clock insulin shot.
73. She will cover me in my chair when I am chilled.
74. She will mow the lawn when I can't.
75. She will plant too many flowers to adorn our home and place.
76. Suffers her pains well and had a new knee.
77. She fought the virus which nearly caused he death--MRSA.
78. Her 'day job' is at the Casino--she wins most of the time.
79. She doesn't lie about losing the farm at the Casino--ha!!
80. She drives the car anyplace we go now. I tell her how.
81. She can make friends any place she goes.
82. One lady called her "my Barbie doll". That's true.
83. She stuck it out with me all these years of strife on the farm.
84. She listens to the news and keeps up--and on the stock market.
85. We agree on politics, mostly republican.
86. She adores all our grand kids and now great grand kids.
87. She beams when the name OWEN is mentioned.
88. She with holds expletives well.89. She loves all her family.
90. The list goes on and on and on.
91.I forgot to mention that she has given new meaning to the words:
"Whatever" and " I guess"
92. I get my enjoyment of being a "gentle" gardener from Mom
93.She is still ga-ga about her husband...that warms my heart and soul.
94. She always had a glass of "Grandview water" for us when we arrived on the farm after a 3.5 hour drive.
95. She loves beer.
96. She tore up the dance floor at my wedding, wearing more glow-in-the-dark jewelry than anyone else.
Janice says:
97. She is an awesome sister and friend.
98. We make each other laugh a lot.
99. We have had lots of fun trips together.
100. She has four awesome daughters to be proud of.
101. I am so happy that she is still with us today.
102. We like our BK burger. We don't have them much anymore though.
103. She in non confrontational and likes peace and tranquility.
104. She is just the best darn sister a person could have.
105. Mom let me wear a "tasteful" amount of jewelry when she took me to town.
106. I don't recall spankings. Sucks to be the older 3 doesn't it :-)
107. Sitting on mom's lap while I was reading Goldilocks. We laughed and laughed and laughed over the part " he looked hungrily at the breadbasket". I don't know why we laughed. It just sounded funny. I think I thought breadbasket was his stomach.
108. Mom let me "pound" on the piano while the older girls were at school and let me believe I was playing a concerto. Maybe that's she vacuumed while I was "playing".
109. Mom let Cynthia and I let Lulu and Taffy sleep in our beds. Well, until Lulu peed in it one night! YUK!
110. Mom was always quick on her feet when the "old lady cat" jumped on the table, walked over mom's coffee cup-dragging her belly hair into mom's coffee!! You should see that woman chase a cat with a broom!
111. We girls always went to school scrubbed and clean. Mom hated to see a dirty face of another child. "a bar of soap only costs pennies!"
112. Even though mom was always busy with helping dad on the farm, working PT at Ware's, raising 4 girls, I always had cupcakes to share at school on my birthday.
113. My butterfly paint apron mom made me for kindergarten. I still have it! She even painted my name on it.
113. Going with mom to Virgie's house for ceramics. Mom is very talented and artsy.
114. Mom's rule....feed the help!
115. Mom's gentle way of helping to mend my broken heart.
116. Mom waking up and looking me in the eyes after being in a coma for 14 days.
117. Mom and dad coming to watch me cheer at the b'ball games even though sports really weren't their thing.
118. Coming to all of my music concerts.
119. Finding the $$ to send me to college.
120. Being a fabulous mom and grandmother and great-grandmother.
I love you, Mom.
121. Oh, I had a fantastic slip that had a tube in the hem. It blew up with air to make my skirts all full! I hated that slip. I just knew the boys were trying to look up my dress at naptime in kindergarten!
122. I remember walking with aunt Mickey and grandma down Mohar road and back around on the ditch bank looking for agates. I always enjoyed those walks.
123. I loved getting to go to her house. (I spent a lot of time with my granma) It was like I got to have two grandmas.
124. I am very thankful that she let all us kids play at her house. It was always so much. (I wish they still lived in grandview so I could see them more often!)
125. She is a very beautiful and loving person. Her wonderful personality draws people in around her. I am thankful she is my aunt!
126. Mom would make me "shifts" (that's a dress for you youngters) for school. I don't think she used a pattern. Anyway, as I grew taller, she would add a cooridating calico ruffle to the hem. Then another as I grew again. Mom was a fashionista before her time!
I really can spell "coordinating".
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