Mother's Day Tribute to Grandma Ruby Andrew

I love this picture of my Grandma Andrew reading to her children. To me it typifies the wonderful kind of mother that Grandma Andrew was. I admire how Grandma would take time out of her busy life to read to her children. I love how attentive the young children are and even Diana is deep in thought, pondering on her mother's words!

As I see the picture of my Mom in her wedding dress on the table, it reminds me of what I read in Grandpa Andrew's journal. When my Dad was released from his mission, the Andrew family traveled to Los Angeles to pick him up, even "Sherm the Worm" and "Doug the Bug" as my Grandpa Edwards would call them. Ray had arranged to give an engagement ring to LaDeane the minute he was released from his mission. LaDeane was the first to get married and the wedding date was set 6 weeks away. After the ring was presented, they travelled down to Mexico to see the sites. Grandma Andrew worried for the rest of the trip how to get everything ready for the wedding! Oh the things mothers go through for us!

Mother's Day Tribute to Grandma Addie May Edwards

In our family growing up as young kids, we would always run to stand next to Grandma Edwards and measure ourselves up to her to see if we had reached her height. Once we had, it was a day of celebration and a symbol of achieving greatness and maturity.

Did any of you cousins do that in your families? 

She was such an amazing example of someone that we can still look up to and attempt to try to "measure ourselves" up to the kind of person that she was.

My Dad once said this about his mother
"Mom was small in stature, but as a mother, she was a giant. Whatever life offered her each day, she adjusted to it quietly, no pretense ever. At the age of five, I was stricken with polio. I remember the long hours and days and months Mother cared for me. She would boil hot Kenny-packs and pin them on me around the clock. Mine was a miraculous healing. Through the efforts of my Mom, my family's faith, and prayers and blessings from my Father in Heaven, I was healed.