Henrietta Green

Grandma Green was a very influencial person in my growing up years.  She was there for me during the day when my mother was working and I was home alone.  I would go over for food and company everyday.  She loved to create she crocheted and sewed.  She had a salt and pepper shaker collection that was HUGE, hundreds.  She was frugal and she was and had been poor her whole life.  She always had bread sacks that she saved to store food in washed and hanging around her kitchen. 

Grandma Green and the whiskey

One of the requirements to graduate from Primary was to share 3 faith promoting stories.  I decided Grandma would be the one to ask.  As we talk she tells me about having no food to feed her kids and she prayed and then a junk man came along and she sold him enough to get buy some groceries, then she tells me about how uncle Clayton was very ill when he was just a few months old.  She had the elders into give him a blessing.  Then she said that she gave him a shot of whiskey.  She added that she really thought the whiskey is what saved him. 

Snakes

When I was about 5 or 6 I would look at an encyclopedia that my parents had.  I would get so scared I would run crying to my mom.   One day she left me alone while she walked next door to have coffee with one of my aunts.  I got the book and started looking (even though I knew I would get scared)  After looking at the snakes I was so scared I started crying and ran out of the house without shoes or coat.  I was positive those snakes were going to get me.

Grandma Green

I lived next door to my grandmother until I was 14.  She was my good friend and I spent lots of time with her.  Since her Birthday is Jan. 9th I will start with a memory of her.

When I was about 7 or 8 I would go to her house for a snack.  She always had homemade bread and she would also give me a slice of bread with homemade butter.  Often times she would just put sugar on the buttered bread. 

Spearmint grew on the ditch bank and I would pick it and take it to her and she would boil it in water and we had mint tea parties. 

She was an amazing grandma

365 Days of Laughs

This is for my kids and grandkids so you don't forget what a crazy woman I am