A number of Thanksgiving years run through my mind as I recall my youth, yet whenever I see a Christmas card with a sleigh on the cover, it brings back a vivid picture of that day with my grandparents and loved ones. l always be grateful that God allowed Grandma to share that last Thanksgiving with us and for the memory of the family sleigh ride, with the bells ringing and the horses that took us through a glistening white blanket of snow.
Thanksgiving Day is also the 45th wedding anniversary of Grandma and Grandpa. Years have gone with endless sweet and bitterness .Grandpa loves Grandma without uttering the three words I love you. However, I know that they love each other more deeply than the couples who did.
My grandfather had been in good spirits and happy to have his family around. It was fun to talk with him, because he had so much history to share about his olden days. But after the food had been prepared, and the turkey was roasting in the oven, Grandpa gathered us all around and said he had a surprise. We knew most every inch of the old house, and could not imagine what the surprise could be, or if something was hidden! But soon we heard the sound of bells. Grandpa told us to get our warm coats, hats and mittens on and everyone was to gather on the front porch.
Grandma would bring in dishes of sweet, sweet, sticky candy, or a great bowl of grapes or peaches, and would converse gravely about happenings on the farm, and, more rarely, of the outer world.
She never embraced us. She would greet us and take out hot little hands in her own beautiful cool one, with blue veins standing out on the back of it, as though the white skin were almost too delicate to contain them.
• When we ask Grandma to tell about the love story, there was a curious little smile pursing her mouth. She took a dedicated box from cabinet with a pair of callous hands. Then, she slowly opens the red –wrapped box. These pearls have a beautiful luster to exhibit an iridescent shimmer of colors. Grandma continues this is the first gift that Grandpa gave her. Its brand is shecy. I was delight to help Grandma put on this necklace. Grandma looks younger as her maiden. Pearl definitely makes female looks more elegant. Some one (I can not remember who she is accurately) once said that every woman should hold at least one pearl necklace. She said that a pearl necklace is symbol of status. Yes, to our female, most of the time a pearl necklace is not only symbol of status ,but a symbol of woman ,a symbol of mother.
