Monday, November 11, 2013
I have many, many good memories of this lovely lady, but one of my favorite ones is of her, lined up at her kitchen counter with two or three young grandchildren, baking. When Sue, Jeff and Deb were small, they were too short to reach the counter top, so Gramma Clark had one of her many good ideas. She would pull out the big bottom drawer, in which she kept her pots, empty them out, and flip the drawer upside down, so that a couple of kids could stand on the bottom of it and be tall enough to be able to help her cut out scones and punch down the dough for buns and stick more chocolate chips in the cookies. And then she'd let them eat what they'd made, in spite of whatever meal was being prepared. She was a wonderful grandmother!
To me, she was a true friend. I always called her, and thought of her, as my 'Other Mother', and will miss her very much.
My daughters and I are so sorry that we will be unable to attend her funeral service this Thursday. Sue and her husband are living in Sweden, Deb and her family are on vacation in Disneyworld, and I am at a conference in Ottawa, but we will all be thinking of her that day. We are glad that Jeff will be able to be there for us.
And when we are all together in Brandon this Christmas, we will fondly remember both Gramma and Grampa Clark, as we always do, and, as we always do when everyone is home, we will visit their graves and be grateful for having had them in our lives.
Amber
