Fun things about Grandma Faith

I may revisit this after the weekend of spending time with my family but here's the updates and some FUN things about my Grandma.

Saturday we visited Grandma on prompting of my friend Ellen who works where Grandma lived. I knew she had been battling the flu but Ellen had some tickets for us (more on that later) and so we worked out picking up the tickets with a short visit on Saturday and I'm SO glad it worked out that way (totally a God thing). We took her some daffodils and spent a quick trip with her. She was still eating lunch at 3pm (I come from GOOD eaters! have ya seen me?) and she was bright and coherant, asked Mikayla a few questions, and was SO excited to see us. She was also sad to see us leave after our 10-15 minute visit which I'm feeling a little guilt over. We were told to keep our visit short and we did but we could have spent a little more time with her. One of those, if you would have known it was the last time you would see someone...

Monday VERY early Grandma started back with some flu symptoms and the nurses called Aunt Dewey to come right away to the center. Aunt Dewey got there just as grandma's long time nurse was coming out of the room after reading grandma's vitals, Aunt Dewey walked in and said she just knew that Grandma was gone. She had just slipped away in the short time of Esther taking her vitals and Aunt Dewey walking in the room. So quick, so peaceful. What a wonderful blessing that is to all of us! She's in the arms of our Savior (I'm a little jealous!) and we're working to remember fun times with her, laugh about some of her wonderful quirks and plan a great celebration of her life and a GREAT time with lots and lots of family!

Last night Keith and I joined Mom and Dad over at Aunt Dewey's (my cousin Kristen joined us after dinner), we shared some fun memories and Aunt Dewey got out some old pictures and some of the stories were just too fun! She loved beautiful flowers, had a fantastic garden (I remember lots of rhubarb) and watered down juice (the apple and grape juice at Grandma's was always watered down, funny that I like it that way now). Dad and Aunt Dewey told me that Grandma used to bring them down here to the market to get fresh vegetables on the bus, I can just imagine that! I'm looking forward to hearing lots of fun stories from my cousins and the rest of the family in the next few days!

We've planned the service for Saturday, Memorial service, light luncheon and then graveside out in West Seattle, I'm really looking forward to hopefully getting a quick trip in to Husky Deli where we ALWAYS went on our West Seattle visits. My Dad was raised out there and we used to do a trip a year out to Alki, to Spud fish and chips and we ALWAYS ended up at ice cream at Husky Deli, they have grey licorice ice cream. It's amazing.

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers! We're excited that Grandma is out of her failing body and celebrating in Heaven! She was a lovely woman of God who went through lots of hard times but followed Jesus through it all.