"Auntie Bugs" and "Raisin Love" by Jen
Monday, February 22, 2010 at 5:00AM Here's Jen:
The challenges at Good Grief have brought up several memories that I want to document, but didn’t have a picture for. The first describes how I started calling my aunt “Auntie Bugs”:
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Journaling reads: The story: When I was a toddler, Kath babysat me … I was crying. To try and make me stop, she shrieked about a spider. The giggles started and we went searching for buggies. And she’s been my Auntie Bugs ever since.
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And the layout for my Grandma shows a snack that always make me think of her, raisins.
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Journaling: Every week, Grandma would pick me up from Jo Anne’s house on Fridays. Waiting for me in the car was a snack … always raisin, sittin on the dash. I see raisins now and smile, thinking of her.
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Reader Comments (2)
Jen, love the story behind your nickname for your aunt! Every time you share one of these layouts, I'm so happy for you that you had such a wonderful relationship with her. :)
Thanks, Amanda! She truly was an angel on Earth. A few months before she passed, she gave me a stack of photos, cards, drawings that she had saved through the years. From thank you notes that I scrawled out in 6 year old print, to cards where I talked about boys in high school, it was so fun to see these treasures from my childhood. And all along, I called her Auntie Bugs. :)