She was my grandmother, but so much more.
A real life force, Honey was the best person I’ve ever known. She was so kind, so gentle, so honorable. The last 10 years of her life were a blur of trying to keep her happy, in a good way. She loved her great grandchildren so much. It was almost more than she could take. She paid Mary, Mary and me to pick worms off of her Catawbas when we were kids. She was number one in the grandparent department, unconditionally. BabyDaddy knew it. We all did.
Miss Mary made horrible food, but she was the best person I’ve ever known. Fifi is allowed to have issues with her mom, but she was good nail polish, cheap paperbacks, terrible gossip rags, diamond watches, dirty Playskool toys, and white picket fences to me.
What a legacy.
The Last Thing Honey Made for Me
1 avocado, mashed
1 onion, diced
1 c mayonnaise
Mix all together. Let turn gray. Inform your grandchild you have made her favorite dish. Heap a 2 c scoop on her plate with saltines. Take 24 different prescriptions.
I love my Honey, but this was a Therapy Worthy meal. She would love that, lol.
Here she is, holding a bunch of random stuff a 4 year old gave her:
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July 13, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Mommer
Sketch,
You forgot to mention that the Poppycock in the package next to her chair was probably five years past its sell-by date. What a lady!
For those of you who didn’t know my mother, she suffered from dementia the last ten years of her life. What a cruel fate for someone who was loved by every person who ever met her. But through it all she never failed to recognize me, her two beloved granddaughters or her two beloved great-granddaughters. She even remembered the names of those pesky sons-in-law.
Honey died three years ago and would have been 85 on July 20th. Thank you, Sketch. She wouldn’t understand any of this “blog” stuff at all but she would be hugely proud of you. And so am I.
July 13, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Mommer
You made me cry!
July 13, 2008 at 8:53 pm
sketchyrecipe
Now you made me cry. Then I thought about that horrible avocado concoction and I chuckled. BabyDaddy still threatens to make that.