Flashback Friday

So, today is Flashback Friday and I am going to try something NEW today - I want you all to LINK EM' UP!!

As a kid, what was your favorite memory of your grandparents house?

We had such fond memories of my grandparents growing up - Mimi and Poppaw to be exact - and one thing that I remember very fondly is playing Gin Rummy with my Mimi and drinking "tea." Really, it was coke or something, but she would let me use her old tea dishes. My Mimi always taught me how to play card games and was so good at them, but she would occasionally let me win. :-)

Come on yall, I want to hear from you!

Comments

*Katy* said…

How fun! My parents and I lived with one of my grandmothers growing up so I have LOTS of memories-but my favorite is about my grandmothers mother-my great-grandmother. She had a "junk jar" (big old glass jar full of mismatched and/or broken jewelry) that I could dump out whenever I was there and play with for HOURS! It was so much fun. When she passed away, that was the one thing I asked for and it's in my bedroom now :)

May 13, 2011 at 1:58 PM

Jenna @ Sharing My Jennarocity said…

Oh, what I great keepsake!!!

May 13, 2011 at 2:47 PM

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