Grandma Evelyn

My sweet little Grandma Evelyn passed away yesterday.

I went to see her a couple of days before she passed. She told me that I looked beautiful and that my eyes were the same. The look in her eyes and the smile on her face made my heart fill with joy...

Thinking of her in this time has brought back so many memories.

She watched my sister and I quite a bit when we were kids. She carted us around. I remember visiting her mom in the old age home. Her mom had dementia and often didn't know who any of us were; I remember Grandma's apartment in Covina and all her cats, the food she made us and how it was so healthy and I didn't like it very much then; banana pancakes, shaped like animals - those were good; borrowing her Reader's Digest in the bathroom when I was about 8; watching Days of Our Lives and The Price is Right; a little tiny stuffed dog she took everywhere with us - Le Mutt; the way she always corrected our grammar; watching plays at the Fontana Players...and the memories just keep coming.

She wasn't my biological Grandma, but she was my Grandma nonetheless. I loved her and I will always think of her fondly. I thank God that she passed at an old age, in her sleep, surrounded by her loved ones who were given the wonderful chance to say goodbye.

Mamma Mia!!

Woah Mamma Mia!

I watched the movie musical a couple of days ago with my sis and my mom and we LOVED it. It reminded me of the days when I would dance in front of the sliding glass door to Paula Abdul songs; when my best childhood friend Skylar, my sister Kellie and I would make up dances and perform in Skylar's front yard and how when I was a kid, I honestly thought that the three of us would make it on Star Search. It reminded me of how the neighborhood kids and I got together and made a movie and dance routine to the song We Go Together from Grease to submit to the Mickey Mouse Club (remember that Brookie?!) when I was about 12. I'm such a singer and a swayer - sometimes I catch myself at stop lights and look around to see if anyone caught me belting out a song or dancing as if I was on a stage somewhere. And I have always been this way! In fact, despite my bad memory, I can clearly remember singing Debbie Gibson songs as loudly as possible to her tape in my mom's old Mercedes.

So, needless to say at this point, this movie was right up my alley! It was so much fun!
And it wasn't just the singing and dancing that was so wonderful. I loved seeing the women in it dancing and singing and being sexy even though they aren't exactly spring chickens. That's exactly how I want to be in 25 years!

And does anyone else want to get married in that church on the mountain top?! Wow! Where's my donkey!? ;)