Thinking

At the moment I'm sitting in the rocker I purchased yesterday and have been thinking of all the times I sat in a rocker just like this as a child. My great grandmother sat in one when she wasn't sitting in her big lazy boy type chair and I can remember always climbing up on her lap and her reading stories to me or we would just sit there all content watching soaps or the price is right. I miss that woman. She passed away when I was in the third grade. I will never forget the day of her funeral because I have never cried so much....except for maybe when my other great grandmother passed away almost a year ago.

I don't know what it was about those two women in my life but both left big impacts on me. They were both strong and independent, even if someone did have to help care for them. Both had big hearts and more love for their families than any person I know. I only knew my GG Martz for about 10 years but she gave me some of the best child hood memories I still carry with me today as well as a lot of coffee...lol. As for GG Staley, she taught me in her own way...and even without knowing it, how to be a loving and caring person and to not complain. I never once heard that woman complain and she lived a harder life than anyone I know...she had 12 kids for one thing.

I owe so much to both of them because I wouldn't be who I am without the love and knowledge they gave to me.

It's amazing how many thoughts can run through my head about those two just from sitting in a rocker....