Grandma's Love

Grandma's Love

Every year around summer time, my mom and dad packed suitcases, and drove forty to fifty minutes down then road to a little town called Chulahoma, to drop me off at my favorite place in Mississippi, grandma's house. Every summer as I took the ride to Chulahoma, a lot had done changed in the time I had been there. My dad would drive around the ten minute town to show my brother and I all the familiar places that had changed since he moved.

After touring the little town my dad once lived in, we headed to Grandma Rosie house. Grandma Rosie house is the house where all the grand children would come to during the summer. Even the neighbor's children would come over and my grandma would take care of them, too. My grandma would make my cousins and I stay outside the whole day unless it was time to eat or take a nap.

We were the worst children in the world, even after the fact grandma whipped us for every little thing we had done. My grandma was the type of grandmother that spoiled all her children's and grandchildren's, but when the grandchildren's did something they had no business doing, our parents couldn't whoop us. She was our disciplinary. Our moms and dads knew not to make grandma mad because when she get in the mad mode, she has nothing to do or say to them, but still being their mother at the same time. She

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raised twelve of her grand children's in a five bedroom house. It was seven girls and five boys. Of course the boys thought they could boss the girls around, so they stayed in more trouble than the girls.

While my cousin's stayed outside all the time playing many games such as: wolf, basketball, volleyball, kickball, monkey in the middle, McDonalds, and baseball, I sneak in the house for air and talk to my grandma. I was the pick out of the grand