I can only remember one time my grandparents visited us together and I can see their car pull up into the driveway, I thought it was a blue VW Bug, but my mom says it was a yellow GT. I think my Uncle Donny was with them. As I remember it he fought in Vietnam and Mee Maw said it changed him. He never wanted to talk about it.
One of my first memories of Mee Maw (that’s what we called my grandma) was when she made a long distance call when we lived in Des Moines, IA. The memory is just so vivid. It was nighttime and the lamp was giving off a glow and I can see her sitting on our old green couch. I remember her dialing the operator and hearing her read her credit card number into the phone. I was so young and I didn’t know you could do that. I even think that was a time Pa Pa (grandpa) didn’t come with her and that was rare. I think she was calling him, at least that’s the way I'm going to remember it.
That may have been when my sister was first born, that’s right I think it was and I wouldn’t or didn’t want my grandma to hold my sister. She was mine and only mommy could hold her, although I think I got to hold her too, but only briefly. I can remember pushing my Mee Maw's hands away too. I was very possessive of my sister at that time and now...well things have changed, I do love her, but that's for another time.
