Thursday, January 28, 2010
January 28th
This beautiful little girl is our Great Niece! Don't go jumping to conclusions 'cause I am 100% not OLD enough to be a GREAT AUNT haha!! I just love this little lady bug, she is adorable, happy and always smiling. I used to get to keep her quite a bit, but she is not living as close by anymore so I don't get to see her that much :( I can't believe that she will soon be 2 years old! Wow, seems like she was just born yesterday!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
January 26th
LOVE this picture! This was 1 of a collage of pictures I took of my Niece Alexis (AKA LuLu) when she was about a year old. It's hard to believe that Miss LuLu is now 5 years old and is on her way to Kindergarten this fall! I love the expression on her face in this shot!! It has been fun to watch this little girl grow up!! Alexis is such a smart and expressive little girl, it will be interesting to see who she becomes.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
January 20th
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LILLY PIE!!! Today my picture of my beautiful little Lilly, she is my BFF's little girl & today is her 5th Birthday. I love this little girl, she is so cute it hurts! To know Lilly is to know that she is a strong minded little lady, I can only imagine how she will be as she grows up. If she doesn't want to talk to you she won't no matter HOW much coaxing you do. She LOVES animals and I wouldn't be surprised to see her as a Vet one day. She also is a BOTOMLESS PIT when it comes to SNACKS! It's funny because she is a total peanut, you would never know that she can out eat anyone else in the house! She has the biggest, roundest Brown (almost black) eyes. David often jokes that she is like "Puss in Boots" on the "Shrek" movies. Even if she does something wrong she can always stare at you with those chocolate drop eyes and you feel yourself giving in! I have been in her life since before she was born and I love her like one of my own. She can ignore me like nobody's business in one breath and in the next breath she will climb in to my lap and fall asleep or give me a makeover. She is her own little person and while she can frustrate her Mom to no end you have to love her for it. She is such a cutie patootie and I can't imagine my life without this little girl. I can't believe she is 5 years old today!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LILLY PIE I love you!!!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
January 19th
LOVE this picture! Looking at all these old pictures makes me feel very lucky! I am pretty sure not everyone has pictures like the ones I am lucky to have. This is a picture of my Great Grandfather "GaGa" with my Dad when he was a baby. I never met my Great Grandfather, he died before I was born. This picture was taken on the front porch of my Great Grandparents home, sadly, it burned down, another reason we are lucky to have these pictures. I love this picture because it is just too sweet the look on both of their faces.
Monday, January 18, 2010
January 18th
This picture is of my Great Grandmother Leota Mays Cash & my Great Granfather Richard Smiley Cash. This picture was always in a frame at my Granny's house and I always thought it was so cool because it was so old! My Great Grandmother "Big Granny" and Great Grandfather lived with my Granny from the time my Mom was a kid. They moved in with my Granny and Babe because my Great Grandfather had been diagnosed with Cancer and was very ill. I never knew him as he died when my Mom was still young. I did, however, know my Big Granny, she lived to be 94 years old, I was in middle school when she died. This picture kind of sums up my Big Granny...she was a very serious person. I rarely ever saw her smile, she was also pretty particular about things and not one to offer any kind of affection. She had really bad asthma from the time she was a child and was always "Sickly" as they called it back when she was young. She was one of 14 living children (2 of her siblings died as infants/toddlers). I have heard stories that because of her health she was pretty pampered as a child. When she married my Great Grandfather he kept up the pampering. She always had "help", meaning a house keeper and a nanny for the kids. She had 3 daughters and 1 son. When her Son was born she had a very difficult delivery and ended up with what we know now was most probably Post Pardum Depression. My Great Uncle lived with another family until he was almost 2 years old! I never remember my Big Granny being sick, other than the normal cold etc. I never remember her seeming to be "sickly", but after all those years of growing up and being treated that way it must have just stuck. People waited on her hand and foot her entire life. She never went anywhere or did anything, she stayed at home and rocked in her rocking chair and watched TV (very loudly), she had "selective hearing" and would be deaf one minute and then next minute she would have heard everything you had been talking about. I loved my Big Granny, but I always wished she would have smiled more. She is so beautiful in this picture, but I imagine how much more beautiful she would have been with a smile!
Friday, January 15, 2010
January 15th
I had forgotten about this picture until last night when I was searching through some old albums at my Parent's house. I LOVE this picture! This is me on the left with my Nana (Dad's Mom) in the middle and my cousin Sarah on the right. My Nana was reading to us. I LOVE to read, I have a passion for reading and I can 100% credit my Nana for helping instill that in me. Nana would read to me all the time. When I started to read she had an entire treasure trove of books and she gladly let me read anything I could get my hands on. A huge collection of Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys books and a huge collection of The Box Car Children books, I'm pretty sure I read every single one. She would also give me books for all special ocasions...A collection of "Classics" Black Beauty, Heidi, Hans Christian Anderson, Little Women etc. One of my most prize possesions is a leather bound first edition of "Jane Eyre" that she gave me on one of my Birthdays (we always celebrated our Birthdays together, because hers was on 6/20 and mine on 6/26). I have probably read that book 10 times in my life. I also have this copy of Pinochio that is really, really old that she gave me. It was pre-owned when she got it for me...the illustrations in it are really old and almost creepy, and the book, even after all these years, has this really distinct "wood" smell to it. Funny considering the story!
I loved my Nana and because she lived next door to me I spent a lot of time with her growing up. She was a beautiful person and one of the smartest people I have ever known. She was the Vice President of a bank and I remember vividly how she used to always dress "just so"with beautiful jewlery and matching shoes. She was always so "put together". When I was a young teenager we were given the devestating news that my beloved Nana was suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease. A tragic diagnosis that had no cure, and still doesn't. My Nana progressed slowly in her disease for the first several years. She stayed at home and was cared for at home. We would still walk to the country store down the road from our house and buy "Nabs" and "Little Cokes" (the small ones in the glass bottles) together, even after she had to retire from her job. There finally came a time when it became very difficult for me to visit her anymore. It was so hard for me to see her in the state that she was in. She had regressed to the point of not caring about her appearance, not eating unless she was made to and she didn't recognize us most of the time. Then when she did recognize me she would say my name over and over again 100's of times, as if willing herself not to forget! I admit that the last couple of years of my Nana's life I was not around her as much as I should have been. My Nana started getting sick when I was about 13 years old, she did not die until January 1997 when I was 20 years old. She was in a nursing home at that point, but she had only been there for about 2 months when she passed away. I went to see her the night before she died and it is a decision I question myself for to this day. I can't even describe how sad it was without opening a huge wound in my heart.
I loved my Nana, she was larger than life to me. I was her first Grandchild and I have often been told I look like she did when she was younger. We have the exact same skin tone and eye color! I gave my first born child her name to honor her. She was a wonderful, loving, person and though I was an adult when she died I lost her many years before that when she and I were far too young. I have many special memories with my Nana, from her taking me shopping and buying me beautiful clothes, to all the wonderful books I still have, to her baking the best chocolate chip cookies and fudge at the Holidays, to her always making me drink and finish my milk at dinner time. She remains present in my heart.
Shirley Page Eubank Chenault
I loved my Nana and because she lived next door to me I spent a lot of time with her growing up. She was a beautiful person and one of the smartest people I have ever known. She was the Vice President of a bank and I remember vividly how she used to always dress "just so"with beautiful jewlery and matching shoes. She was always so "put together". When I was a young teenager we were given the devestating news that my beloved Nana was suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease. A tragic diagnosis that had no cure, and still doesn't. My Nana progressed slowly in her disease for the first several years. She stayed at home and was cared for at home. We would still walk to the country store down the road from our house and buy "Nabs" and "Little Cokes" (the small ones in the glass bottles) together, even after she had to retire from her job. There finally came a time when it became very difficult for me to visit her anymore. It was so hard for me to see her in the state that she was in. She had regressed to the point of not caring about her appearance, not eating unless she was made to and she didn't recognize us most of the time. Then when she did recognize me she would say my name over and over again 100's of times, as if willing herself not to forget! I admit that the last couple of years of my Nana's life I was not around her as much as I should have been. My Nana started getting sick when I was about 13 years old, she did not die until January 1997 when I was 20 years old. She was in a nursing home at that point, but she had only been there for about 2 months when she passed away. I went to see her the night before she died and it is a decision I question myself for to this day. I can't even describe how sad it was without opening a huge wound in my heart.
I loved my Nana, she was larger than life to me. I was her first Grandchild and I have often been told I look like she did when she was younger. We have the exact same skin tone and eye color! I gave my first born child her name to honor her. She was a wonderful, loving, person and though I was an adult when she died I lost her many years before that when she and I were far too young. I have many special memories with my Nana, from her taking me shopping and buying me beautiful clothes, to all the wonderful books I still have, to her baking the best chocolate chip cookies and fudge at the Holidays, to her always making me drink and finish my milk at dinner time. She remains present in my heart.
Shirley Page Eubank Chenault
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