My big grandma

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My big grandma..I would watch Lawrence Welk and she would always point out the same attractive man who was in the chorus and say that she had dated him before she met my grandpa.

It was easy to watch this man dance and sing and insert a vision of my grandma dancing and singing with him. Still brings a smile on my face when I come across an old Lawrence Welk show on TV.

Those were great times. My big grandma would talk too much during commericals.

Ever product advertised, she would ask me if I used it. Although I loved her, I would block out this constant questioning...if the drone sounded positive I would answer "ah ha" and if her voice sounded negative I would respond "na ah."

Big grandma was a recluse. One Christmas my dad rented a limo to drive her to our house for a family Christmas.

I walked into the kitchen and she was laying on the floor and everyone else was in the livingroom talking and laughing.

"Grandma! What are you doing on the floor?!"

"Child...I was waiting for you to help me into my chair."

I storm into the livingroom and shout "why is grandma on the floor?" Twenty people look at me like deer in headlights.

Finally my aunt whispers. "She felt weak once we got her in the house and wanted us to put her down right then. She said since you were now in nursing school, that she would wait for you to help her into a chair."

I return to the kitchen and there is no room to get around her. "Grandma, I'm going to have to move you into the livingroom so there is more room." She agreed and I dragged my grandma by her feet into the livingroom.

She was holding down her dress so that it wouldn't ride up. It took 4 of us to get her into her chair.

That's when she spotted a huge new TV with a big bow on it. "Jim..when y'all get a new TV?" Suddenly we all yell Merry Christmas, Mom, Grandma, Mary Ida!

That was the first time my grandma had been out of her house in twenty years and she was now a proud owner of her first color TV. She started crying, we all started crying. Then we ate and played poker. Those were great times.