Once a month or so our family drives to Appleton to spend a weekend at Grandma’s. Now that Grandpa is gone she lives by herself and, even though she keeps herself constantly busy, she truly enjoys every visit. Our kids love going to Grandma as she always has something fun for them to do. Even when there are more cousins visiting at the same time, Grandma can magically keep them all happily occupied. With seven kids of her own she has a lot of experience how to entertain young minds 🙂 And whatever it is they are doing there is always some learning involved with it, too. I’ve been thinking about documenting Grandma doing her everyday activities for a while now. Last Saturday turned out to be a perfect day to do it. So I just followed Grandma with my camera and captured her doing her normal everyday stuff. Hopefully one day Sonia, Alek and her other grandchildren will appreciate an opportunity to see and remember how it was… I know I would love to have this kind of photos of my own two grandmas, as I spent a lot of time with them and felt really close. But now only some beautiful memories remain along with just a couple of pictures.

This desk used to be Grandpa’s headquarters. He used to spend entire days behind it listening to his multiple amateur radios and keeping an eye on everything that was going on in the house. Now Grandma starts her day here by reading a newspaper… and the radios are still going on in the background. She has too much on her to do list to spend a day at the desk so after a cup of coffee she moves on…

 

When we (or somebody else) visit grandma she always has some banana bread or a pie to share. Everybody leaves her house with a small baked good wrapped in a paper. Last weekend was no different. When there are kids around they are involved with the baking as well.

Genealogy is one of Grandmas hobbies and passions (she has quite a few others as well). Everybody is admiring all the names, dates and stories she remembers about all past and present family members. On Saturday she found some time to make corrections on a calendar which includes all birthdays and anniversaries. With 12 siblings and seven children of her own the number of relatives is impressive…

When we leave there are always two things that have to happen. First Grandma will give us some goodies to take home (this time they included fresh daffodils and banana bread) and then there is a photo by the car that she takes of each family that visits (taking pictures is also her hobby :-))

We are looking forward to many more weekend visits yet to come…

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