Today....
Today was a good day... the sun shined and the birds sang....
her favorite kind of day. I saw a robin today sitting on the fence, it reminded me of the many winter days we would sitting watching for the first robin... a sign of spring. It was always a favorite thing of mine... or the french toast every sunday morning after church we would make it together.. then we would decide what we would fix for supper because sunday night was always grandmas night to cook. Fresh vegtables and homemade potatoes and what ever meat i wanted. After the deciding of dinner we sit and read the paper or work on a blanket. Grandma taught me how to sew, something i have always enjoyed doing. Then there was our walks our fun and exciting yet always the same path every sunday walks. We talk about lots of things mostly school and family and church and animals and flowers, anything that made me feel smarted by listening to..Her favorite quote was do you feel any smarter and i always responded the same way! Yep i sure do! Then back home to cook dinner and wait for my always perpetually late rest of family. And they would come and we would eat and we would sit and laugh and talk and just bond. I loved those dinners and i have truly missed them. Last November, my unrelated neice was born and i was able to give a blanket that i had made just like my grandmother had made for me when i was born as she did for everyone of her grandchildren and i will do for all of my children grandchildren neices nephews and significant people in my life know that with each stitch i sew is helping me to understand the joy my grandmother felt with the same thing just a few years before my time.... so as i sit here tonight letting my helpless yet well emotions take over my eyes and heart i can think of how truly happy she is, reunited at last with the man she has lived with out for the last 18 1/2 years but has loved for so many many more... that she has 4 beautiful sons with 12 grandchildren who meant the world to her and i know they have eternity to catch up on all the moments they've missed together.One day i will be reunited with them both hopefully many many years down the road so that i will have just as long to fill them both in on all the joys that they have missed with me only they havent really missed they just shared together watching me from above.... I love you Grandma!
Helen Paulen Notestine
October 6, 1920- August 2, 2003
Reunited with the man of her dreams to share an eternity of happiness
~Lil Angel~
her favorite kind of day. I saw a robin today sitting on the fence, it reminded me of the many winter days we would sitting watching for the first robin... a sign of spring. It was always a favorite thing of mine... or the french toast every sunday morning after church we would make it together.. then we would decide what we would fix for supper because sunday night was always grandmas night to cook. Fresh vegtables and homemade potatoes and what ever meat i wanted. After the deciding of dinner we sit and read the paper or work on a blanket. Grandma taught me how to sew, something i have always enjoyed doing. Then there was our walks our fun and exciting yet always the same path every sunday walks. We talk about lots of things mostly school and family and church and animals and flowers, anything that made me feel smarted by listening to..Her favorite quote was do you feel any smarter and i always responded the same way! Yep i sure do! Then back home to cook dinner and wait for my always perpetually late rest of family. And they would come and we would eat and we would sit and laugh and talk and just bond. I loved those dinners and i have truly missed them. Last November, my unrelated neice was born and i was able to give a blanket that i had made just like my grandmother had made for me when i was born as she did for everyone of her grandchildren and i will do for all of my children grandchildren neices nephews and significant people in my life know that with each stitch i sew is helping me to understand the joy my grandmother felt with the same thing just a few years before my time.... so as i sit here tonight letting my helpless yet well emotions take over my eyes and heart i can think of how truly happy she is, reunited at last with the man she has lived with out for the last 18 1/2 years but has loved for so many many more... that she has 4 beautiful sons with 12 grandchildren who meant the world to her and i know they have eternity to catch up on all the moments they've missed together.One day i will be reunited with them both hopefully many many years down the road so that i will have just as long to fill them both in on all the joys that they have missed with me only they havent really missed they just shared together watching me from above.... I love you Grandma!
Helen Paulen Notestine
October 6, 1920- August 2, 2003
Reunited with the man of her dreams to share an eternity of happiness
~Lil Angel~