Well, this is it, folks! Hold on to your hats because it's gonna be a bumpy ride! Well ok, maybe not. But it is New Year's Eve and anything can happen... and probably will! I'm nestled all snug in my house this evening content to be working on projects and watching TCM's Putting on the Ritz Night with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers.
You can betcha my Grammy would be sitting in her red vinyl easy chair, magazine in one hand and glasses in the other, blanket over her legs, TV tuned to TCM to watch Fred and Ginger, and doing her best not to nod off in between dance numbers. That's exactly what she'd be doing tonight. And right now, instead of paying attention to the glamour and gaiety on the TV screen in front of me, I am really missing my Grandmother. It seems that I miss her more around this time of year than any other. Maybe its because I spent so many happy Christmases at her home, which was always decorated to the hilt, and for the last couple of years we haven't been able to go there because she's gone. She passed away in October of 2005 just two weeks before my brother, Ryan, married Karen my wonderful sister-in-law.
I'm thinking of her tonight because, in between movies, I saw a beautiful tribute to those people in the movie industry that passed away this year called "TCM Remembers 2007". They use a beautiful song called "Promises" by Badly Drawn Boy. Some of the more notable names are Deborah Kerr, Jane Wyman, and Betty Hutton. They were also three of my Grammy's favorites. I can just picture her up there in Heaven sitting with those three ladies she just idolized, chatting away about movies, and Grammy just sitting there enthralled and star struck. Here's a picture of my very own glamorous Grammy with her apron... heels... earrings... cooking in the kitchen.
I want to share that Tribute with you, too. I hope you enjoy it and that wherever you are, if you have the opportunity, call your loved ones and tell them you love them. If you're with your loved ones, give them a big hug and a kiss. Don't forget to make good memories while you can because you never know when those opportunities will be gone.
Have a safe, charming and Happy New Year!
You can betcha my Grammy would be sitting in her red vinyl easy chair, magazine in one hand and glasses in the other, blanket over her legs, TV tuned to TCM to watch Fred and Ginger, and doing her best not to nod off in between dance numbers. That's exactly what she'd be doing tonight. And right now, instead of paying attention to the glamour and gaiety on the TV screen in front of me, I am really missing my Grandmother. It seems that I miss her more around this time of year than any other. Maybe its because I spent so many happy Christmases at her home, which was always decorated to the hilt, and for the last couple of years we haven't been able to go there because she's gone. She passed away in October of 2005 just two weeks before my brother, Ryan, married Karen my wonderful sister-in-law.
I'm thinking of her tonight because, in between movies, I saw a beautiful tribute to those people in the movie industry that passed away this year called "TCM Remembers 2007". They use a beautiful song called "Promises" by Badly Drawn Boy. Some of the more notable names are Deborah Kerr, Jane Wyman, and Betty Hutton. They were also three of my Grammy's favorites. I can just picture her up there in Heaven sitting with those three ladies she just idolized, chatting away about movies, and Grammy just sitting there enthralled and star struck. Here's a picture of my very own glamorous Grammy with her apron... heels... earrings... cooking in the kitchen.
I want to share that Tribute with you, too. I hope you enjoy it and that wherever you are, if you have the opportunity, call your loved ones and tell them you love them. If you're with your loved ones, give them a big hug and a kiss. Don't forget to make good memories while you can because you never know when those opportunities will be gone.Have a safe, charming and Happy New Year!
1 comment:
kirsten, that is a very sweet entry!
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