Grandmas are Special!

For a lot of reasons, last week was the week of Grandmas. Clara got to spend the week with both of her Grandmas, and she got to visit her Great Grandma Oney twice.

I found some great quotes about Grandmas and Grandparents:

-When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. ~Ogden Nash

-The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. ~Sam Levenson

-Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet. ~Gene Perret

-Grandmas are moms With lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown

-Grandmother - A wonderful mother with lots of Practice. ~Author Unknown

-What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. ~Rudolph Giuliani

-Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends. ~Allan Frome

-Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. ~Marcy DeMaree

-If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! ~Hannah Whithall Smith

-It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother. ~Author Unknown

In loving memory of Grandma Oney - August 22, 1926 to October 8, 2010.

You will be dearly missed! We were blessed to have you in our lives and to have you as a Grandma.

Some of my favorite memories of Oney are how much she loved and adored Clara. She just couldn't get enough of our little girl! After I had Clara, it was so fun hearing Oney's stories of being a Mom and raising her kids. Loving her family came so natural for her. What a special lady!

The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children's children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future. ~Charles and Ann Morse