Friday, February 15, 2013

Lessons from my Paternal grandmother

This evening when i checked my E-mail, my dad wrote.Grandma had a heart attack last night and in the hospital.It just stuck me with thousands of emotions. She may be 84 years old some thing.She was always there in my life. I happened to collect all the wonderful and crazy things i knew about her.

1.She is a mother of eight kids A grand mother to 16 of us and great grand mother to more than  a dozen of them.She never complained about taking care of them.She was a good mother, grandmother and a good wife. She was beautiful and strong and i have never seen her raise her voice.
2.She was married when she was 12 years old to my grandpa when he was 17 years old.( In INDIA ,Child marriage was a  common practice earlier in days.


3.She had her first kid after 5 years. She has got 3 boys and 4 girls and one kid died during labor.
4.She is a morning person, i have never seen her sleeping after 6.00 AM
5.She  was an organized person. She plans the meals for the whole day in the morning, get all the chopping and washing ready for the whole meal and starts to cooks.
6.She has got a great memory power, She  recalls all the snacks that was served to her in every places or houses she visited.
7.She is a very good critic.
8.She always listen to my Grandpa when they were Young. but when my grandpa was old and needed more attention , she was little annoyed but always served him till his last breath.
9.She was little partial among her kids , but she could not bear any kids or grand kids suffer.
10.I really love her cooking. She never waste a single bit.She plans perfectly even if she needs to feed 50 people.
11.She always eat her breakfast after a bath. All her seven kids follow this, till date. I used to joke about it to everybody.
13.She had leuco derma, she was so upset about it.She always wanted a cure of that.
14.She saves a lot. She saves food, money, replaces old goods for good ones.




15.She had a great set of rules for raising Children.
16.She had a special kind of love her Boys than for the girls though she loved everybody.
17.She read the newspapers and the weekly magazines from top to bottom.She studied till 5th grade.
18.She shared all her childhood stories of her parents and uncles and her village.
19.She is a great Home Adminstator. She manages with whatever she has got.
20.She never made an excuses even though she had lots of stuffs to be taken car.

I just decided to pick up myself and work with great passion and do the things that i really Love to do.