Every Christmas, our large family gets together to celebrate. (Sadly, we have had to skip this tradition for the last two years due to Covid.)
And every Christmas our tradition is to take a picture of my mother with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. When she died in 2019, she had 30 grandchildren and 40+ great-grandchildren.
The rule is that there is no opening of presents until after the photo has been taken. This ensures that even the camera-shy will show up for the picture. So, I actually have a whole collection of these pictures dating back to 1988 when my father was still alive. It's hard to choose a favorite from among these since I love this tradition so much.
So here is a selection:
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| 2014 |
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| 2009 |
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| 2003 As you can see, there is never a shortage of new babies for Grandma to hold. Some of the babies in the first picture are holding their own babies in the last picture. There was no place my mother wanted to be more than surrounded by her grandchildren. She always counted them as her greatest blessing. I'm happy to say that we continued this tradition after Mom's death. Here is our family photo from 2019, the last time we were able to celebrate together.  |
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