Every now and again I deep clean parts of my house and it’s always the kitchen, because it is where I spend most of my time. No, not always cooking and eating!
Steve and I sit at the table in the morning on our days off catching up with one another about the week, we color and often go over Gabes letters and numbers and when my friends come by its usually where we sit in catch up.
When my grandma was living and even in my parents house til this day, like I said before the table has never “caught anything but good food and conversation” this has been an ongoing memory of mine.
One conversation my mind goes back to is a vacation I came back from visiting a childhood friend in the Black Hills of South Dakota. I don’t have a lot of time to go into detail about the vacation right now.
When I got back home I went straight over to “grams” house afterwards and she loved to travel as well, so she fixed us a cup of coffee and sat them down at her kitchen table and told me to tell her all about my trip.
In the middle of the conversation I started crying because it was so hard leaving the company of a good friend and the scenery was just as peaceful and beautiful as the talks my friend and I shared during the visit. Grabbing my hand and comforting me as she always did she said “sweetheart” ” a Vacation would not be a vacation if we didn’t have to come home” and she was right, it never would have been what it was to me if I had lived there.
My “grams” gave me wisdom, comfort, she also gave me my dad who is lots more like her than he cares to admit. He too can tell you the truth as well but silence the pistol and you can hear the conversation that is going on inside the conversation. All this came to me today when cleaning and finding a gift from Qvc she gave me years ago that we didn’t need then but we could sure use now.
Eight years almost on the twenty-eighth you been gone “grams” and your still here with me, you knew what you were doing all those years and because of all those evening and morning talks at your table I just close my eyes and their you are and once again you silence the pistol of being gone.
Life In My Tin Can red rug 
I’m glad you shared your ‘memories’ or your grandmother. It’s so comforting when some of these thoughts come to us…. Diane
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I agree. Thank you Diane.
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Diane, How do I change the title of where people leave comments? I forget, right now I have Chime On In and I want to change it…
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Go on Dashboard to Settings…. Select Discussion.. Scroll to bottom where it says Comment Form… Prompt and put in what you want and then I think you have to click save… Also Shelley… On that same discussion part, I noticed you have checked of that commenter must have a previously approved comment…. That would prevent some people from commenting… Do you think you should ‘uncheck that box too? I don’t have mine checked off….
One other thing.. When you post, I notice on the right side you only have 3 Categories. I think you should add few more Think of topics you post about .. for eg. I have several… family,love,life,humor,prayer,God,poem, etc etc… this helps others find your blog post…
Just a suggestion.. Diane
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Okay, Thank you and I will take your advice. They have changed things around so its taking me a few minutes to get organized! I don’t see comment form?
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There’s no form… just underneath where it says Comment Form it has the word Prompt…. That’s where you put what you want to say …. Diane
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I did figure it out! Thanks.
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where would I go to add more categories?
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You do that right in when you go to add a post… On the right hand side you’ll see categories and tags… Where it says Categories it says ‘add’ so you add the ones you want… Diane
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should I go back to a few and add them?
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Hi Shelley, I probably wouldn’t bother now except maybe for the last one. After you add them remember to press the ‘update’ button Diane
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Thank you!
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