i'm finnally ready to talk about a subject thats been on my mind lately....i'm sure some of you don't like dabbing around the idea of death (like me for example) but it is a fact of life.....some of you know i went to texas 2 weeks ago while we had the freak snow storm around here and had trouble on the way back (i complained about getting stuck on the way back a few times in the snow and ice 
) the reason i went to tx was i had a great-great grandmother that passed away at 103 yrs of age 2 days after thanksgiving.....she lived here with my grandparents, they didn't want her in a nursing home and her funeral was in tx.....actually she was more then a great-great grandmother to me, she was like just a grandmother....see my grandparents raised me since i was 12 yrs old and i was raised around her and i was close to her.....and so were my kids(foster kids)......since having them, we would go and see her atleast 1 time a week( heck she was very supportive of my fostering the kids) 103 yrs old think of all the technological advances she has seen....when she was a child, she went across the country in a horse pulled wagon....she was around for the early discoveries that we take for advantage now....think about it.....cars, planes, the microwave, washer & dryers, paved roads, heating and a/c, just about anything you can think of 
..... she had also lived thru cancer surgery(they had to remove half of her lower jaw a few yrs back, she had brain surgery around 10yrs ago, she had survived 2 husbands, the great depression, she made the local tabloids for sowing cloths for the soldiers during ww1 & ww2.....she was an inspiration for those who knew her, she was never selfish.......here's a few pics of her.....the first pic is from her 103 b-day last august and the second is at my wedding 4 yrs ago.....
i'm not looking for sympathy from anyone and i'm sorry if i upset anyone......i just felt the need to say a few things from a great woman.....
) the reason i went to tx was i had a great-great grandmother that passed away at 103 yrs of age 2 days after thanksgiving.....she lived here with my grandparents, they didn't want her in a nursing home and her funeral was in tx.....actually she was more then a great-great grandmother to me, she was like just a grandmother....see my grandparents raised me since i was 12 yrs old and i was raised around her and i was close to her.....and so were my kids(foster kids)......since having them, we would go and see her atleast 1 time a week( heck she was very supportive of my fostering the kids) 103 yrs old think of all the technological advances she has seen....when she was a child, she went across the country in a horse pulled wagon....she was around for the early discoveries that we take for advantage now....think about it.....cars, planes, the microwave, washer & dryers, paved roads, heating and a/c, just about anything you can think of ..... she had also lived thru cancer surgery(they had to remove half of her lower jaw a few yrs back, she had brain surgery around 10yrs ago, she had survived 2 husbands, the great depression, she made the local tabloids for sowing cloths for the soldiers during ww1 & ww2.....she was an inspiration for those who knew her, she was never selfish.......here's a few pics of her.....the first pic is from her 103 b-day last august and the second is at my wedding 4 yrs ago..... i'm not looking for sympathy from anyone and i'm sorry if i upset anyone......i just felt the need to say a few things from a great woman.....
