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.
"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.
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