Ditdo in her garden.
From Ditdo…aka grandma/Marianne Volpert who is a regular contributor to this blog dubbed Multigenerational Garden…
Out my kitchen window the generations move on. The lilac named Miss Kim, Beth gave to me is about done, but I see the first bud on Sharon’s peony and the iris that came from Grandma Catherine Volpert’s garden when she moved from Terre Haute to Grayson are in full bloom.
Plants and flowers represent so many special people.
Kim is my daughter-in-law’s name. I love her for many reasons. The most important one is that she has shared her husband and her son’s time so graciously with me. Beth is my daughter and even better, my friend. We share lots, most importantly my two older grandsons. Sharon was my sister-in-law with the emphasis on sister. She was only 12 when I joined this family and because neither one of us had sisters we made the relationship become what the best of sisters share. Cancer took her much too early in life. Catherine was my mother-in-law. It was amazing to watch her become an independent woman. She didn’t attempt emancipation until she was in her ‘60’s but she went gung-ho then including getting a license to drive. No sixteen year old ever felt the rush of freedom that being behind a car can give more than Catherine. Alzheimers took that independence but it was a good twenty-plus year ride.
Daughter-in-law, daughter, sister-in-law, mother-in-law all there in the garden for me to see first thing as I am making the morning coffee.
What a lucky Ditdo am I.
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