Someone Special

At this point I’m really using this blog to write down my personal thoughts, I don’t really have a theme or a focus, I just want to express myself. So tonight I find myself thinking about my grandma or as I call her, Grammy. Growing up I spent most of my summers with my grammy and papa, they were my second parents. Looking back they have provided so many special memories that I cherish. I was their little Tay-Tay, or my Papa’s Girl, and I loved every second I spent with them. As I got older it has been pretty difficult to get out to visit and ever since my Papa passed it’s hard to stay there too long. I really miss him, there isn’t a day that I don’t think of him…

So there was an I Love Lucy special on this evening and I recorded it, hopefully Grammy got to watch it. That’s one of the shows my grammy got me hooked on as a little girl. The Golden Girls, I Love Lucy, Roseanne, and The Nanny, are what we spent our summer nights watching. But I Love Lucy has a special place in our hearts. It may be that we both relate strongly to Lucy, we’re both strong, determined women, and we’re both goofy and couldn't care less what people think. My grammy often describes us to be free spirits, I say we’re eccentric. Grammy suffered from breast cancer when I was in the third grade. When she was finished with chemo my mom took us on a trip to Jamestown, New York (Lucille Ball’s hometown) for the I Love Lucy festival. It was an absolute blast! We stopped by there about two years ago for only a day. Since then my grammy has fallen into a pit of bad luck. She’s such a kind and strong person that she just rolls with the punches. She isn’t very financially stable. So next summer I plan to save some money and take a trip back to Jamestown, just her and I. I’ve got a lot of saving to do, because I want to get a nice hotel and be able to take my grammy out for a nice dinner. She’s so special to me and I just want to repay her for everything that she has done for me.