When you give a girl a granny, she is getting a best friend for life. When you give a girl a granny, she is getting someone who thinks she can never do any wrong, and that is a powerful thing.
In my granny's eyes, I am probably one of the smartest, most beautiful people to ever live. It's important to have that one person in your life. Each time I see her, she tells me how I'm living her dream of going to college and getting a good job, how she was unable to do it in 1948, and how she is living vicariously through me. That sense of responsibility helps me through even some of the roughest finals. I know that my granny is living through me and believes that I can do anything I set my mind to. That kind of blind faith gives me faith in myself.
When you give a girl a granny, she is getting a hair stylist, a tea party hostess, and a best friend. Someone who will sit for hours and brush her hair until there isn't a tangle in sight. Then she will proceed to torture her by brushing her hair into tight, high pig-tails. Someone who will pick her up from school in the afternoon, take her home and put out cheese cubes and crackers and ham and pour Coke in a teapot to sit and listen to stories of her day in first grade and make her feel like it is the most interesting thing her granny has ever heard. I don't think anyone has ever cared more that Jeremy stole my blue-green crayon and gave it back with a broken tip, but it was okay because he gave me an animal cracker during snack time.
When you give a girl a granny, she is getting a role model. She is getting one of the strongest female figures she could ever hope to have in her life. She is getting an example of what true unconditional love is, how to bake a cake, how to run a household, and how to raise kids. She is getting an example of how to not quit when things get rough, and believe in the Lord with all of her heart. She is learning how to love others unconditionally the way her granny does.
When you give a girl a Granny, she is getting one of the best people she could ever ask to be in her life. She is getting someone who will always love her and believe in her. She is getting someone who welcomes her into her home away from home anytime she steps foot in the door, and her granny will act like no time at all has passed. She is getting a woman who is someone to aspire to.
