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Easter Remembrances...

  With Easter being just a few days ago, I always think of my grandma on Easter.   I think of her in part because Easter was just one of many large, boisterous family celebrations we would have at my grandma’s house and also she suffered a stroke on Easter Sunday morning, and that Easter was so totally different than any I’d ever experienced in any of my 14 years of life up to that point.   She always had the whole family over, all 5 of her children and their spouses and all of the grandchildren and, once they came along the great grandchildren as well.   She would always cook a bone-in ham from Wenneman’s Meat Market and also have roast beef and gravy, huge pots of mashed potatoes and vegetables, and everyone would bring something to go along with the meal.   There would be tables in the back bedroom and at least one (sometimes two) in the living room to seat everyone.   We said grace as a whole family and dug in to a fantastic meal!   There always ...