Conversations with Grandma: lamp shades, spinsters, and fat aunts

I had a great post almost ready to go, but I got called in to work an extra shift. All good intentions? Out the window!  Instead, I put together a compilation of Grandma stories. Everyone loves Grandma stories.

Grandma, Auntie Jeanne, and Aunt Margarette

Speaking about a woman who died one winter. "You remember that woman? She wasn't quite right. But everyone was nice to her. Even if she was a little off."

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When I told her I didn't mind whatever she wears to the wedding. Even if it's a lamp shade. "Well, it's decided then. That's what I will wear. You can introduce me to all your friends."

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"You shouldn't eat so much cereal. You'll get rickets."

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Talking about bonds she gave to me to hold for myself and my sisters. "When the others got married, I realized I might die before you and your sisters got married. So, I put the money I would have given you as a gift into bonds. Then you could have the money when you got married or turned 30. It's a good thing you waited to cash yours!"

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For years, my grandmother has had a saying we've heard with a fair amount of regularity. "Fat as Aunt Annie" became something we took for granted as a saying said all over the world.

One day, Ky asked her directly "Grandma, where did the saying 'Fat as Aunt Annie' come from?"

Grandma looked at her kind of puzzled like and said, "I had an aunt named Anne. She was really fat."

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The other night, we heard Grandma talking on the phone to one of our aunts. She was talking about how grateful she was that Ky and I were able to come visit her. She then noted that I had taken her grocery shopping earlier and she had bought some treats. She closed the conversation with a typical Grandma-ism.

"I shouldn't have bought all those snacks. These girls don't need to gain any more weight".