Grandma turned Ninety!
Okay that's not something I actually did but I did help her celebrate. The whole family did in fact. Grandma has nine children. Each of them is married and together they gave Grandma twenty-nine grandchildren. In this less than flattering photo she is flanked by her two favorite first grandchildren, myself and my older cousin, Bill. As you can see some of the grandchildren are quite grown and we've produced about thirty great-grandchildren. (It may be more like thirty-two but I've lost track). Anyway, just about all of us took over a resort in Pennsylvania for a family reunion/Grandma's Birthday party. All but two rooms at Lukan's Farm were taken up by members of my family. I highly recommend it. The place was nice, the food was great and having days to spend reaquainting yourself with your family is more relaxing than I would have thought.
In order to keep track of us all we wore colored T-shirts with numbers on the back. Since Bill's dad was Grandma's first child all the people related to him had navy blue shirts with a number one on the back. My mom is child number two so we all wore maroon shirts with number twos on the back. And yes, after a few glasses of wine there were rousing cries of "We're number two! We're number two!" Yep, after a few glasses of wine we can be proud of anything.
Grandma, as always, looked fabulous. In my entire life I've seen the woman in blue jeans exactly once. She wore them for working in her garden. Truth of it is she had a gardening outfit. I'll never forget it. I was a teenager and spending a week with her and Grandpa at their house on Long Island. She comes out of the garage in blue jeans, a button down blouse, gloves and a hat. All coordinated, of course. So, it's no surprise that she had a different outfit for dinner each night and while the rest of us dressed down with T-shirts and whatnot she had sandals to go with her skirt.
Grandma's a good sport too.
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