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We are in Michigan, celebrating the long life of my Grandpa, Woody White. My dad was looking for the right word for him: jokster wasn’t it, but definitely fun-loving. I think we’ve all shared our favorite Grandpa-jokes this week (and it’s no wonder that my Dad, and increasingly me, like bad jokes so much). My cousin Amy shared one of Grandpa’s old jokes that I remember well:
Hickory Dickory Dock
Three mice ran up a clock
The clock struck one
But the other two got away
As a child, I was utterly convinced that Grandpa’s favorite song was “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” with the lyrics slightly changed. I was so convinced that was Grandpa’s favorite song that once we were in church service and they announced we’d be singing my Grandpa’s favorite song (in honor of his birthday or something) and I fully expected the congregation to launch into Grandpa’s made-up line “Rudolph with your nose so red, won’t you pull my little sled.” How surprising when we sang some classic hymn!
So, I think it’s only appropriate that we talked and laughed a lot last night.
We shared pizza and pasta with a house full of family & friends. I hugged my Grandma, and got bear-hugs from my aunt, uncle and cousins. I met second cousins I had only heard about before, and caught up with other second cousins I haven’t seen in 15 to 20 years (and talked restaurants with my cousin Lisa’s husband Casey — they live outside Houston and come to Austin a lot). We shared stories and laughed a lot. We talked about food and cooking, travel and photography, Bora Bora and Nashville, church-work and patents, caramel corn and peanut brittle, home-made nylon scratchers and sewing, and everything in between.
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Soon, we’ll head out to the service, being conducted by my Grandma’s “baby brother” (Great Uncle George, who is 87, I think!). I’m not sure that there will be quite as many laughs this morning, but I do think his long and laughter-filled life is worthy of a great celebration.
Etcetera. Whatever.
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