Memories Left Behind

   My Grandmother Otila Hernandez, was a short 4'9 lady, who was very thin, with gray and curly hair. She would wear eyeglasses to see far, used only floral gown dresses at home, but wore fancy dresses when she would go out on special occasions. Her skin was so soft as a baby, and smelled like baby powder with a mixer of a flowery perfume. My old granny was a well taken care of wife who never worked. Let's just say she was spoiled!

   As I think of my granny, I remember her as a sweet and outgoing person would sit down and chat for hours about anything you needed to talk about. We would sit in the front porch on a bench and chat about the our favorite t.v. shows. We would watch Novelas "Spanish series" together. She would sit on her rocking chair and I would sit on her bed and just glance at the TV, I believe we wouldn't even blink at all. On commercial breaks we would stretch out and talk about what could happen next.  My grandmother passed away in Dec. of 2003. It was the sades news ever when I found out she was sick. I just cried when I saw her at the hospital with all the machines hooked up on her, seeing her in pain broke my heart. 

  I still remember when I was young and my mother would take me to go visit. We only live a few blocks away for my grandparents house, which was nice. Our weekends at my grandparent house was the best time ever. The whole family would get together for special occasions and make great family parties, with awesome food, music and great entertainment. My grandma would always make me laugh but acting silly, dance to some music and even telling us old time stories.

    Years have passed and I still remember it like if it was just yesterday, were we would sit together and watch Novelas. I know for a fact that one day we will  meet again and continue the memories she left behind!

Role Model

As of 2007, I realized that I needed to continue my education!. When I graduated from high school I never thought how important going to college was! After having children you don't realize how important it is to continue your education and how much you can benefit from it in the future. As my children  are growing up I then started to think, "if I want my kids to further their education after high school, I need to do it as well no matter what age I am. Being a single parent of 3 children at the time, I notice that I was their role model and I needed to pursue my education. Now that I have the opportunity to continue school,  I can now show them that no matter how hard I struggled in life I was able to make something out of it! Having to work full-time I am only able to be a part-time student. I hope that this semester goes well for me. I am working on getting my Degree on Child Development.