Happy Easter Gram

I love Easter. I always get excited this time of year. The smells of spring, the warmer weather, the impending Easter celebration always are cause for a little pause in deep breathing on my part. For the past several years these things without fail also cause tears to flow as they always bring to mind Grandma Green. Every year she made Easter so special. It is amazing how some ham, rolls, and chocolate bunnies, can somehow blaze an entire person's exsistence in your mind and heart. I think it was Grandma's consistency in the things that she did for us growing up that has made her memory so lasting. Year after year, the $5 Easter money, the chips no matter what-even though there was too much food, the jelly beans, the basketball on T.V. It all is Easter to me. Every Easter since she has been gone seems to fall short. I have tried hard for Grandma's sake, but at the end of the day it is Grandma that is missing. I can recreate her traditions, but the person is not there. She was so much more than the bunnies, and the rolls. Grandma--the person made Easter so special then, and she continues to make it special even after her death. I love Easter, and I love that it makes me remember my Grandma so vividly. May those memories never fade. Thank you for them, and Happy Easter Gram!