Here’s this week’s challenge/prompt: Grandparents’ House
Week 31: Describe your grandparents’ house. Was it big or small? How long did they live there? If you do not know this information, feel free to describe the house of another family member you remember from your childhood.
Take time to record and preserve your own personal history as well as taking care of yourfamily’s genealogy. Amy Coffin of the We Tree Blog has authored this fine series of 52 prompts (one for each week of the year) to help you achieve your personal or family history goals. Use these prompts, as you see fit, to chip away at recording your memories as well as life’s lessons learned for the benefit of future descendants. Use your computer or record your memories on paper. If you have a blog, record them there. These make great prompts for interviewing relatives, too.
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This week, Lori Wiser recounts her memories of her grandparents’ house. As you can see, the memory of the physical surroundings stimulated many other memories that are a priceless record of experiences there. Here’s what she had to say:
“I spent a lot of time at my grandparent's house. It was a safe, warm, and inviting place to be.
I loved the backyard, especially when grandpa had strawberries, tomatoes, carrots, and asparagus to pick.
I remember there being a toad that lived in the garden. One day we brought the toad in the house to show my grandma and it jumped out of my hands and landed on a birthday cake on the stove.
One time grandpa helped us make donuts and we made a big mess all over the kitchen and the backyard with the dough and flour.
Grandpa made homemade pancakes a lot. He would get up early and grind the flour. Grandma would prepare strawberries from the garden to put on top. YUM!
I believe I had the chicken pox when I was at their house. Or maybe it was my brother and sister that had chicken pox there.
We spent the night a lot.
My grandpa would take us on rides in the basket of his bicycle. He would ride us all the way to the airport to watch the planes and the jackrabbits in the field.
We would also go to the beach and play in the sand and water.
Grandpa used to always mow many of the neighbor's lawns.
Grandma took us shopping for clothes a lot. She took us to get dresses for special occasions at a dress shop called LuAnn's. I loved the dresses I got there. The Christmas dresses had small bells with bows just under the hem.
Grandma would make cereal with Special K, bran, strawberries, nectarines, and bananas. It was really good.
I loved to spend time with my grandparents.”
Thank you to Lori Wiser for her contribution.
Ms. Wiser obtained her Master’s Degree at Arizona State University and taught general music and band in Phoenix, AZ. Her grandparents’ home was in Long Beach, California. They had that residence for fifty years, until they moved to Mesa, AZ shortly before their deaths in 2000 and 2001.
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