October 24, 2013

• Grandma-ism.

  Oh, Grandma.

  Bless her heart. Seriously. She has a huge heart. I have been blessed with some grand grandparents. My Grandma and Grandpa Wynalda and my Grandma Sanderson. Not so much Grandpa Sanderson…I don’t even like calling him Grandpa but if nothing else, he makes me appreciate my Grandpa Wynalda all the more. I digress.

  Most people know I had something in ArtPrize this past year. My biggest encourager by far was my Grandma. She not only financially backed the project (her and my uncle – they both realized with the confines of my affordability it would’ve been a different piece – again, huge blessing) but she also sat down there with me almost every single time I was there. She seriously insisted. It was great to spend so much time with her and grandpa sometimes as well as tag off with some people when I was simply tired or my throat was sore. All that to say and lead into some ArtPrize Grandma-ism.

  1. She really wanted to purchase me an ArtPrize t-shirt and mug. She was more than excited – I mean really excited that I said she could. She knows I don’t often allow people to do things for me. I couldn’t help but snap this photo. It brings me joy inside that she did this.

  

  2. Some time frames down at ArtPrize were busier than others. She talked about how she thought about bringing Sudoku to play but knew she shouldn’t (she REALLY likes Sudoku). I downloaded her an app of Sudoku. It really rocked her world and it was cute.

  

  3. If you know me, follow this blog every so often you’ll know my Grandma is very determined to see me married. Again, bless her heart. I truly mean this, I’m so grateful for the way she prays daily for a spouse for me. I don’t commit it to prayer like she does. One day some people from church came up – my cousin’s boyfriend and his friend/my friend (who goes to West Cannon). We chatted, nothing special and after they left and I’m shocked Grandma held her cool to say something until then. She non-chalantly says “I was trying to see if there was anything between you two.” I paused for a second…”Oh between Brian and I?” (Not a thought that had ever crossed my mind until that moment.) “I don’t think that would ever happen.” Then she went on about how good of a guy he is…which is very true. Anyway, the next day he posted a picture of the piece from one angle and the other angle showing both sides with this posted under it, ” A child inside the womb is no different than a child outside the womb. I’m not sure how you can argue with that.” Which is the entire idea of the piece…just said differently. Anyway, grandma saw it and ate it up. I mean ate it up. SO much so that every time a person came to see it or she was talking about it she mentioned it and misquoted it everytime – it was awesome.  I’m almost sure she liked it better than the actual piece. She had me get the picture from him that he posted and put his saying under it. I told her, I could take the exact pictures and probably better without a glare and she said no…she wanted his. haha. Ok. So I did it and printed it twice for her…why wouldn’t she frame them…

  

  And Brian is still on the radar for her for me…at least he’s single. That’s a step up from others she has tried to set me up with in the past.

  (I have another Grandma-ism in the works…just wanted to split them up a little.)

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