My Grandma Essay

crash. I ran my fingers with chipped robin egg blue nail polish through the sand, I had known something was wrong, so I wasn’t surprised. I just didn’t know how to react. My parents read my blank emotion as grief, but honestly, I was just tired. Sharing a mattress with my little brother took a lot of work, and there was a flock of birds outside of my tent that held a concert around 6 am this morning. My brother paused for a moment, and then asked if he could still build a sand castle. My dad…

The Week Of Surprises One week in July was my best week, well was supposed to be the best week. I was 7 years old and still curious about the world, but on on July 5th when my mom walked into my room and yelled, “ Let's go! Time for your week with grandma.” I really didn't want to get up but I had to. I got up very slowly, moped around the house until it was time to get into the car to head up to Botkins. The car ride felt like forever, but jamming out to Hannah Montana kept me entertained.…

In my family, both my maternal Grandma and my father have diabetes. However, 10 years ago, since my Grandma had regularly checked for blood glucose level, my Grandma noticed the blood glucose level was higher than normal so my Grandma changed to diet. My Grandma has started eating more wholegrain foods, more vegetables and fruits, drinking lots of water and doing some gentle exercises to prevent diabetes getting worse. Until now, I think the diabetes had gone as my Grandma’s blood glucose level…

My definition of a hero is courageous, strong, loving, bold, and a fighter. I know that my hero, my grandma, fits this definition to a T. My grandma had an encounter that changed her life forever. In March of 2016, she heard the horrific news no one ever wants to hear. She found out she had breast cancer. She went into the doctors for her normal yearly mammogram at Stanford Medical Center in Fargo, ND. Little did she know this regular yearly appointment would change her life forever. After…

contestants! Enter Grandma and Townsperson Host: Ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the stage Grandma Smith and Jackson O’Hara. Why don’t you two tell the audience a little about yourselves? Grandma: (in old lady voice) Well, I have 10 grandchildren and most of them are in 4-H. I used to be in 4-H myself. Now back in my day, we didn’t have them fancy dancy typing machines to type up our reports on. We had to hand write everything and--- Host: Alright. Thank you Grandma. Um, Jackson why…

remember it like it was yesterday. The day my life turned upside down and went up in flames. It was a day that I will never forget in a million years. The events that happened not only changed my life but affected my whole family. It was the day I lost my grandma.That day I learned to appreciate the time you have with your loved ones because you never know when the hourglass will run out of sand. December 4th, 2012 started as a normal day. I never knew how much my life would change that day. I…

Ding! My light bulb just went off, I was going to draw my grandma a picture and it was going to be the best picture I ever drew. I couldn’t wait I had to start drawing. A minute later, I was already in my room and ready to draw. I was going to draw a red chevrolet car. I drew the car with my grandma walking out of the house and unlocking the car so she can go to work. A hour later, I was done. I had loved the picture because it looked just like the magazine’s car. I so proud of myself. My…

When I was a baby my parents decide to move to the United States but decided to leave me back in Ethiopia with my auntie and grandma until they were able to get settled. For the next few years until I moved to the U.S my grandma was the one that took care of me. Since I didn’t really know my parents other than speaking on the phone I developed more of an attachment with my grandma because she was the person that I saw every day, she took me to school, picked me up and all in all basically took…

It was Christmas eve and Grandma was making gingerbread man and houses for him to live in. All of us made gingerbread man and houses for all of the gingerbread people. When we got done cutting out the gingerbread people grandma stuck them in the oven to bake, we started on their houses out of giant gram crackers. I use so many sweets I couldn’t even count and mine was the best out of all my family of course. My gingerbread house was 10 inches high it was giant. Grandma finally pulled out the…

observed human behavior on my mom. Everyone was home which includes my grandma, my dad, my younger sister, my younger brother and me. It was 8:37 pm, she came home, as she entered the door she said “Assalomu alaykum” to my dad and my grandma as my sister took groceries that she brought from her hand . Then my younger sister and I said “Assalomu alaykum” to her. My younger brother came to the door while she is still with her bag and boots on and asked her for lollipop. Then my mom replied, “oh I…