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until I accidentally eggs she made but never ate, and
almost dropped one her hatred for the color green.
pan putting it into the No one knows to this day why
oven. GG grabbed it she hated green. My sister has
just in time! We all taken upon herself to continue
laughed and the cake the tradition of making the
turned out great. We deviled eggs for all the family
have continued the get-togethers. We even serve them
tradition of making the on GG’s egg plate. My great
Italian Crème Cake for grandmother was also known
the holidays. She was for always “forgetting” the rules
always willing to do of a game or whose turn it was
anything we wanted to and making it up as she went
It was a kid’s dream come true! do, even if that meant along, which usually ended in her
Besides all the treats, my sister dancing to “Call Me Maybe” on winning. She also loved baseball,
and I would have so much fun the radio. She was a trooper! and although I didn’t play past
at her house. We would put T-ball, (and by playing I mean,
puzzles together and play games I have so many good memories
like dominos, Connect 4 and of GG. I feel as though she not
Battleship. Sometimes we would only impacted my life but the lives
even play made-up games like of the rest of my family. One time,
throwing up a bear in a blanket what started as a bad thing turned
and seeing how long it would stay into a good memory. It started off
in the air before it dropped on the by GG breaking her right hip by
ground. No matter what game climbing in a window. Yes, you
we played, we always had fun read that right - climbing through
together. Sometimes we would a window. That was something
just sit together and watch movies. else her daughter Elaine was
I loved the way she was always unaware of until days later, when
excited when we brought a new it became so painful a trip to the
movie over to share with her. doctor was necessary. She ended
Whatever we were doing, she was up having to have surgery. My standing in the outfield and
all in. Even when we were leaving cousins and I wanted to cheer her daydreaming) she never missed a
her house on our bikes, she would up, so we reenacted the whole game. I remember almost always
watch us ride to the end of her event and put it to the tune of when we went to her house, she’d
block, before going back inside “Grandma Got Run Over By a have a baseball game on the T.V.
just to make sure we were safe. Reindeer”, except our version was,

“GG had to Have an Operation”. GG died about three years ago
Every year, GG would make her It was quite the entertainment that around Christmas time. My mom
famous Italian Crème Cake for year at Christmas! and dad woke us up and told
Christmas. One afternoon we were us the news. I didn’t cry at first
staying with her before Christmas, My GG will always be because I didn’t know what to
she decided (with a little prodding remembered for her obsession think. It took a few moments for
from my mom) to teach US how with owls, the delicious deviled me to process. We stayed home
to make it. It was so much fun -

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