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2018 AARP Grandparent of the year essay

I think my grandma Alma Small should be the 2018 grandparent of the year. She is very nice to everybody people and animals. Our grandma takes good care of us. Grandma makes star Quilts for us and everybody else too. Alma is a really nice person to everyone.

She is nice to everyone even if they’re not nice to her. My grandma is nice to everyone that she knows. Our grandma helps us with our homework and teaches us things that we didn’t learn in school. The Rosebud Sioux tribe asked her to be a foster and she was, but she retired. Grandma was a great foster parent before she retired.
She is a very hard worker around the house on Fridays by working on a lot of things. Grandma has to clean the whole

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