Most all of us have parents who work full-time jobs and this was a difficult situation growing up. We all know that if they could have, they just wouldn't have gone to work. They would have stayed home with us, rewound our favorite "Barney" movie over twenty times, fixed our favorite snacks, and rocked us to sleep after we were tuckered out from singing and dancing to "Mister Sun" so many times. Unfortunately, they couldn't do that, except for on the weekends, holidays, and the occasional off-day. I was lucky; I didn't have to go to a daycare every day with a bunch of cootie-covered kids. I got to go to Grandma's house. Spending most of my childhood with her taught me so much about life and the way it works. I never knew that spending my sweet, innocent days with a little old woman would impact me so greatly. Growing up with Grandma shaped me into the woman that I am today.

Granny is someone that I can always have fun with. She showed me how to play as she did when she was a little girl. Some of the games out on the shelves for children do nothing but stress their little minds out because of the "you must win or else" objectives. Those weren't the type of games that Granny taught me how to play. You played for enjoyment and for pleasure. Sometimes simplicity is the best for a child because it lets them use their own imaginations. Creativity flourished within me because of this.

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Granny has taught me to appreciate the older generation. She always has a story to share, and at eighty years old, a memory is everything. I could picture the roads she walked and the hard times she went through on her own. I could hear the laughter she voiced back on a summer's day in the 1950s as she giggles at the remembrance of a funny incident. I began to think about how she was my age once and how I will be in her shoes one day. The more stories I heard from her, the more I saw how she came to own the wisdom and contentment that she possesses. I admire the silver hairs upon her head; they don't just represent her old age anymore, they represent the mistakes she made and fixed. That's the beauty of life. That's the kind of things she looks back on and smiles at.

There are Memaws, Nana's, Mawmaws, and I have a Granny. There are so many different names that can be used as a replacement for Grandmother, but they all have the same meaning behind them. A grandmother is someone who is always there, and she usually has your favorite cookies around for support, too. I am so thankful to say that I have grown up with my grandmother. That may sound odd, but there's no better soul to spend a childhood with. It's funny how the young and the old bond so beautifully together.