Smiling!
One Thanksgiving many years ago. I think I was about 21 at the time my grandmother gave all of her grandkids Thanksgiving buttons to wear. I don't know where she got them from but she thought it would be a fun idea for all of us to wear them and so she came to the kids table, the blue flowered card table, and she passed them out. She had 6 grandkids at that time. So, my sister, cousins and brother all put them on. I don't remember what the other's said but mine had a turkey on it and it said, "Some of my best friends are turkeys." Nana, my grandmother, laughed when she gave it to me so hard. I think she thought that was the funniest one. I think she was trying to pass out ones that fit our personality. Don't really know what that said about mine but I liked it too.
I wore that button the next year too. I was the only one that still had mine next year and the year after. It made her happy that I still wore my little plastic turkey button. She would always brag that I was the only one who kept mine. I think I wore that button for about 5 years or so and then I lost it. I used to pin it on the curtains in my room which I shared with my sister. I don't know what ever happened to it. One year it was just gone. Like that turkey got up and flew away or ran away.
It made me so proud to wear that turkey button on Thanksgiving. It made my grandmother smile. This year I can just feel her spirit more then I ever have. I don't know why that is but it feels like our spirits have merged into one and I am smiling more. I think about her and just smile all day. The holidays were always her favorite time of the year. Especially Christmas and as it gets closer and closer to Christmas I can just feel myself smiling more and thinking about Nana more and more.
The other day I saw a DVD in the store. Driving Miss Daisy. I smiled and smiled. I smiled because one Christmas I gave that VHS tape to Nana and when she opened it she smiled and she acted like it was a the best gift she ever got from anyone. She talked about that movie non stop until next Christmas. I think she must have watched that movie more times then she nor I can count.
I really miss Nana but her spirit lives on and it lives on in me. I know that I will be smiling for a long time, every time I think of her.
I wore that button the next year too. I was the only one that still had mine next year and the year after. It made her happy that I still wore my little plastic turkey button. She would always brag that I was the only one who kept mine. I think I wore that button for about 5 years or so and then I lost it. I used to pin it on the curtains in my room which I shared with my sister. I don't know what ever happened to it. One year it was just gone. Like that turkey got up and flew away or ran away.
It made me so proud to wear that turkey button on Thanksgiving. It made my grandmother smile. This year I can just feel her spirit more then I ever have. I don't know why that is but it feels like our spirits have merged into one and I am smiling more. I think about her and just smile all day. The holidays were always her favorite time of the year. Especially Christmas and as it gets closer and closer to Christmas I can just feel myself smiling more and thinking about Nana more and more.
The other day I saw a DVD in the store. Driving Miss Daisy. I smiled and smiled. I smiled because one Christmas I gave that VHS tape to Nana and when she opened it she smiled and she acted like it was a the best gift she ever got from anyone. She talked about that movie non stop until next Christmas. I think she must have watched that movie more times then she nor I can count.
I really miss Nana but her spirit lives on and it lives on in me. I know that I will be smiling for a long time, every time I think of her.
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