A Gift for My Grandmother’s 86th Birthday

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Tomorrow my family and I will celebrate my grandmother’s 86th birthday! Although my grandmother can be a bit impossible at times, I love her with all my heart.

Last year I bought her a digital picture frame and loaded it with scanned photographs I generated from hundreds of my grandfather’s old photographic slides. My grandfather, who passed away over ten years ago, was a fantastic photographer.

Due to the cost of processing film, my grandfather rarely developed the pictures he shot. Instead, he would hold slide shows for the family, projecting hundreds of images onto the walls of his home. When my grandfather died, my grandmother moved all of his slides into an old armoire chest where they sat and collected dust.

One afternoon, I decided those photographs needed to be displayed. I gathered the slides from my grandmother’s house and painstakingly scanned them. After I reached 1,000 scanned images, I purchased a digital picture frame and loaded them.

To this day, my grandmother says it’s the best present she has ever received. She keeps the digital picture frame running 24 hours a day and shows it to all of the neighbors who visit her.

I am so happy that I could provide something so meaningful to her. I feel very blessed and grateful to have her in my life.

This year I don’t have such a perfect present for her. In fact, I haven’t bought a gift for her at all. More than anything else, I know what she wants to spend time with me.

This year I’m planning on taking a day off work to be with her. Sometimes I drive up on the weekends and visit before or after I see my parents, but this year, I plan to set aside an entire day to be with her. I might even let her pick the day.

5 thoughts on “A Gift for My Grandmother’s 86th Birthday”

  1. I miss my grandma(s). Sounds like you’re doing a great job of it, but enjoy her while she’s here!

    One thing I’m glad I did was take a minute or two of video (with my digital camera) of my grandmother before she died. Whenever I want, I can see her alive and talking to me. 🙂

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  2. For older people I’ve come to realize that one of the best gifts is to spend time with them. I recently took a cooking class with my mom and we had a great day together. Maybe your grandmother can teach you something that she has experience with – how to cook her favorite meal, some tips on frugal living-I recently saw a YouTUbe video of “Depression Cooking with Clara,” featuring a 91-year old great grandmother. Maybe your grandmother can write a blog entry for you 🙂

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  3. I feel like jumping up and down with happiness because my daughter does that for my mother she is always looking forward for her birthday as she knows that she choose to go anywhere she wants

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