“I love you nana,” I whispered beside her grave. I try to visit her grave at least once a week, but sometimes things get busy and I cannot. The wind was picking up that day, winter was coming soon, the cold air told me as I stood there. The tears on my cheeks felt like they would stay frozen there forever. As I walked away from her grave, my mind was rushing with thoughts what was nana like, what was it like for her growing up with so many brothers and sisters, what it would have been like growing up with her still alive. I sat in my car, trying to defrost from being outside for so long, when I decided to go to nana’s sister’s house to find the answers to my questions. Pulling in the driveway of Aunt Shirley and Uncle Ted’s house made me
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She set the mugs down on the table, I could see the steam coming up from my mug. “Follow me,” she said walking to their spare bedroom. Just as I walked through the door of the bedroom, Aunt Shirley was pulling out boxes and boxes of pictures and setting them on the bed. I began looking at all the pictures, some were from Aunt Shirley and Uncle Ted’s wedding others were of granddaddy and granny Nesbitt and their children. “Ah here it is,” Aunt Shirley said has she pulled out an old dusty floral pattern hat box. “Let’s go back to the kitchen and look through these, I think this is the box that all of Kathryn’s pictures are in,” she said heading back towards the …show more content…
“Kathryn was so excited when she got pregnant with Roxanne. She read so many books about how to raise children, she did not want to get anything wrong,” Aunt Shirley told me as I sipped my hot chocolate, “Kathryn and Hayward were so happy when Roxanne was born, and they knew they wanted more children, so three years later Gayle was born. Unfortunately she only lived for a little over one hour, I remember Kathryn crying for days and days after that. I do not know how she carried on it must have been the good Lord, because she was just so heartbroken, after losing Gayle. Three years later Neal was born, I remember going over to their house one day, it was the day Neal died, Kathryn was screaming and crying, and Roxanne looked terrified so I let her climb out the bedroom window. After losing two of her babies, I thought she was never going to try and have another, but she did three years later. Melinda was born, then Deena two years later, and then your mama was born three years after Deena. I can only imagine what it was like raising four
She set the mugs down on the table, I could see the steam coming up from my mug. “Follow me,” she said walking to their spare bedroom. Just as I walked through the door of the bedroom, Aunt Shirley was pulling out boxes and boxes of pictures and setting them on the bed. I began looking at all the pictures, some were from Aunt Shirley and Uncle Ted’s wedding others were of granddaddy and granny Nesbitt and their children. “Ah here it is,” Aunt Shirley said has she pulled out an old dusty floral pattern hat box. “Let’s go back to the kitchen and look through these, I think this is the box that all of Kathryn’s pictures are in,” she said heading back towards the …show more content…
“Kathryn was so excited when she got pregnant with Roxanne. She read so many books about how to raise children, she did not want to get anything wrong,” Aunt Shirley told me as I sipped my hot chocolate, “Kathryn and Hayward were so happy when Roxanne was born, and they knew they wanted more children, so three years later Gayle was born. Unfortunately she only lived for a little over one hour, I remember Kathryn crying for days and days after that. I do not know how she carried on it must have been the good Lord, because she was just so heartbroken, after losing Gayle. Three years later Neal was born, I remember going over to their house one day, it was the day Neal died, Kathryn was screaming and crying, and Roxanne looked terrified so I let her climb out the bedroom window. After losing two of her babies, I thought she was never going to try and have another, but she did three years later. Melinda was born, then Deena two years later, and then your mama was born three years after Deena. I can only imagine what it was like raising four