Cookie Grandma - how we miss you...

We sure are missin' our Cookie Grandma ~ the boys are outgrowing their pajamas and keep asking if there are any more, I can't make snicker doodles like her and I haven't had a turtle pie in a very long time. She always made 'raw' pies and freeze them so I could take them home and bake them whenever I wanted one. I baked the last one right before she pasted away - a peach pie. It was delicious...H is a good baker and makes Cookie Grandma chocolate, chocolate chip, chocolate sprinkle cookies and she makes her oatmeal cookies too - NO RAISINS :) We sure do miss Cookie Grandma...

The photo above makes me think of a lot of things ~ Christmas stockings, loud Grammy kisses, Christmas morning brunch in her apartment...so many things.

H is very sad ~ she cries for Cookie Grandma all the time. She was always brutally honest with H and the choices she would make and I think H respected her Grammy enough to listen. She feels a little bit lonely. Her son, my husband E is even more sad, he is difficult to comfort.

I miss stopping to see her before school, I miss picking up my coupons that she would save from the Sunday paper, I miss her telling me that she's so happy that I married her son, that he and H are better for having me in their life, I miss her telling secrets about the other family members, I miss the Christmas quilt she was going to make for me, I miss homemade chex mix, I miss picking up a complete meatloaf dinner for 12 people just because hamburger was on sale at Hegadorns, I miss her asking me to stop at BJ's to pick up her Depends but to come to her house first because she has a coupon for $1.00 off, I miss her buying me kitchen gadgets that I never use, I miss her yelling at me because I can't make pickles, I just miss her...

So, with the tears flowing down my face, I post this 'Merry Christmas Cookie Grammy' blog...we love you and miss you very much.

P.S. Enjoy your in-laws while they're still in your life...