My Grandma Essay

We all have someone that we deeply love and care for. Someone that inspires us to be the best person we can be. My grandma is my role model. She is one of those people that everyone loves because she is kind and caring. She is a good spirit that loves life and all it brings. She taught me many lessons that I still live by. However, my grandma has always struggled with epileptic seizures. Seeing her suffering and pain was one of the hardest things I had to go through. Every summer I would stay…

Before I saw her face, I caught her scent – a surprising waft of freshly baked cookies. My grandma baked cookies all the time, and her house had that aroma all the time. I always want to go there, I have so many experiences at her house. If I could go there every day, I would. She lives in Valley City, so I don’t see her that often. When I do though, I try to make the best out the time I do have with her. Usually when I walk into her house I smell all kinds of foods. You can especially pick…

old, my parents ' got divorced. My dad moved back to the state I was born in, while I stayed with my mom in Arkansas. Every once and awhile I would have visits with my dad, he would come pick us up and take us back to Iowa. I mean, I understand now why my sister and I had to spend time with my dad there. But then, I was 5 and all I knew is that daddy wasn’t around for the past month. I was without a doubt, the biggest mommy’s girl and I hated having to leave her. I would cry all the way to my…

My Influential Person, My grandma Mary Someone in my life that influences me is my grandma Mary, she is my mom's mom, she’s in her early sixties. She makes the best meals ever, whenever my mom works, and she does not work she picks me and my brother up and brings us to her house and makes us the best dinner’s. SHE cares about my family and my cousins. She is always there for me and my family. SHe is very gentle , quiet, and she cares about everyone. She loves to bake and sew. SHe’s always…

support. Some struggles I have been through have been very hard and I didn't want to get through it but I did. For example when my grandpa passed away December 26th, 2016 the day after Christmas. This moment affected my life completely in many different ways, my grandpa and I were always very close. I would see him every other Sunday when I would go to my grandmas with my family to hangout and have lunch. I remember he would always be in his room in the back of the house, he reminded me of a…

Great Grandma Sunema I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints. I know who I have become, and I know God’s plan for me. I have my great grandmother, Sunema Sisifo Letelemaana, to thank. Her conversion story into the Mormon church has made me the person I am today. I have gained many of Sunema’s personality traits such as her musical and athletic talents, I also come off as shy and soft spoken. According to my family, I appear charismatic because when I do speak I have the…

abundant during a particular time frame. Alexandre Hogue depicted rural farming through the lense of the Dust Bowl, a natural disaster that affected the Midwestern states in the 1930’s. In contrast to tragedy, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as Grandma Moses since she started her career at age 78, portrayed…

I interviewed my great grandma Leonarda, she was born in Mexico, 1918. When she was a little girl she didn’t play much, at that time kids had to work in the corn fields in order to provide money for food and shealter. But when she was able to have some free time, she loved to play hide and go seek and run to one to another to see who could run the fastest with her siblings near the fields. My Nana (as I like to call her) didn’t have enough money to buy brand new toys, but her mother was an…

I interviewed my grandma Sandy who is 68 years of age. I asked her several questions to figure out her beliefs on marriage, family and children and if they have changed over time. Her answers were interesting to me because although I thought we would have different beliefs on somethings I didn’t think other beliefs would be different that ended up being different. My grandma said she had always planned on getting married since she was a little girl. She said that she thought she would get…

When My Great Grandma Died The school day had just ended and I was on the pick up list, so when the bell rang I went to the main lobby. I saw my mom and she saw me too and then she came up to me and said,”your Great Grandma had just died.” When she said those words they made me speechless. I was thinking of all the fun times we had had together, then her death happened so sudden. All that I could think of is that the fact that my Great Grandma is dead…