The Scriptures tell us that:
Proverbs 17:6
“Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, while the glory of children is their ancestors.“
You are the crown of your grandparents. Isn’t that such a wonderful thing to be? That verse also tells us that the honor of us is our older relatives.
I am so glad that God has blessed me with Godly grandparents who love me and have helped me grow in the right way. My Grammy has been my biggest help. She always encourages me to do what is right and most importantly to pray for everything. She is such a wonderful Godly woman and I am so glad that she is my grandma. I have gotten so many of my “loves” from my Grammy and we are very much alike. I have always been close to my grandma, but we haven’t always been close by each other. We used to live over 1500 miles apart, but last October she moved in with us and it is so wonderful living so close to her again.
I just can’t say how happy I am that Grammy has moved up here with us and is living soo close by us! 
I sure did miss her for those years she lived in New Mexico while we were in Indiana!
I remember when I was little I loved going to work with her because she is a beautician and had her own shop. It was so neat to be with her and watch her. We have so many great memories of so many things we have done and I am so looking forward to making so many more!
I love my Grammy so much!
Another friendship I have is a close one with my great grandparents. For a long time they weren’t close to us. I am so happy that we have been able to grow closer with them this past year. One of the ways I became closer to my Great Grandma and Grandpa was writing letters to them. They loved receiving letters from me.
We live about 90minutes away from each other and its hard to find times to go up to see them, so writing letters to them made the miles seem closer.
I also created a Armed Services Album for my Grandpa who served in WWII. I became very close to Grandpa by going through his pictures with him and talking to him about his time overseas. He wasn’t very open about it because it is painful for him to remember, but the little bit he shared with me brought us closer.
Some of my childhood we shared a house with my Grandpa Walters. I really love that time of my life because it was so great always being with him. We had so much fun and special times. My Grandpa moves motorhomes from one place to another and I always loved going on trips with him. Not only did I get to do something which I really love which is traveling, but I got to do it with him! We would buy special treats for the trips and have a really awesome time. We also used to go walking in the early mornings whenever I could come stay at his house. He used to make use special dinners or snacks too. He taught me how to do a lot of things the proper way too.
My Great Grandma Starr was a person I had never really known until 2003. I decided I wanted to get to all my grandparents because they are all aging and I know their time is short here on earth. So to get to know her I wrote her a letter. I was so happy to receive a letter back from her and we have been writing ever since. I got to spend some time with her a couple years back before she moved across country! I am so glad I took the time to write letters to her tho because we now have a special bond that wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t.
I love all of my grandparents so much and I am so blessed that God has given me time to be with them and learn from them! It is very special and important to become friends with your grandparents and older people. I love spending time not only with my grandparents but with older people in general.
Our neighbor is an older gentleman who just celebrated his 70th birthday a last week. I count him as a grandpa because we are so close and he loves our family. He is unmarried and lives with his dog, so my siblings and I clean once a week for him. We also do odds and ends jobs around his property for him. He treats us like his family and I am so glad we have gotten to know him.
There are so many things you can do with your grandparents to become closer with them. Here are some of the things I have done:
Write letters
Talk on the phone
Run errands together
Go fishing
Scrapbook an album together
Take walks
Make a recipe book with your Grandma’s recipes
Play cards
Plant a garden
Go through their old stuff together and talk about their past which is your history.
There are so many more things you can do! What are some of the things you do with your grandparents to have a closer relationship with them?
©AmandaDixon2009
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May 18th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
How lovely to have these close and very dear relationships with your grand-parents and great grand-parnets, whan an honour
I never got to meet my father’s parents as they both died before I was born. I have photos of them and it would have been lovely to get to know them but this was not meant to be. My grand-parents on my mum’s side I did get to know. I love my grand-father to bits but he died when I was 10 years old.
Sadly, the relationship between my mum’s mum and I were very strained from the time I grew into adulthood and a large amount of this was down to the strained relationship between my grand-mother and my mum. I found out that my grand-mother died about 5 years ago and no-one told me, she was in her late 80’s when she died.
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May 18th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Thank you for this super sweet post Miss Amanda. All of my grandparents have passed away but I have so many wonderful memories with them. I liked the idea about the recipe book. One year for Christmas after my grandmother passed away, my mom made me a recipe book of all of her recipes. It is the best gift I have ever received. SO SPECIAL!
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May 18th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Oh you have inspired me. I am going to write to my grandma today!
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May 18th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
What a beautiful pic Amanda!
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May 18th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
You are so blessed to have so many grandparents and grandparents, AND also to recognize their value before it was too late. It always makes me sad to see elderly people whose children and grandchildren have no interest in their lives. I’m sure you brighten their day. I highly recommend keeping at least a few letters from each grandparent. There is something special about seeing a person’s handwriting – it’s a little piece of self. And if you have room, keep them all. You may look back at them in years to come and find tidbits of wisdom and cheer and encouragement. As an avid scrapbooker and scrapbook teacher, I’m also glad to see you did an album for your Grandpa! Great post. I sure miss my Grandma who is home with the Lord after almost 96 years of faithful service!
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May 18th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I actually have every single letter I have ever received from all of my grandparents!
MUST save them!
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May 18th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I love my grandparents and we are pretty close, but not as far as miles go we are about 2600 miles apart! I still have one great grandparent, my great grandma, so I’m so happy to know her and all my grandparents.
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May 18th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Love this post and these photos. You have some great grandparents and great great-grandparents.
Love, Mom
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May 18th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Such a sweet post, Amanda (just like you). I look forward to making many more happy memories.
Love you
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May 18th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
My beautiful Grandmothers were such a part of my life. Both lived to be 93 and died within a few months of each other. I hope I can leave the kind of memories for my grand kids my grandmothers left with me.
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May 19th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Aw what a great post Amanda
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May 19th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Wow! That’s so great! I live next door to my grandma. That was really the Lord! We’re able to help her with my aunt’s cancer therapy. It’s the first time that we’ve lived close in over ten years, so it’s been great to see her often again!
Love ya! Hope you’re doing well!
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May 19th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Most kids don’t have time nor care to know their grandparents,From the pics I can see where you get the pretty look from..My mom passed away 7 months ago at the age of 64, I have no grandparents or greats left, but I do have my dad, which I am truly grateful to GOD for.. I appreciate him more than ever now, because I know they can be there for a lifetime and gone in an instant..You are blessed by God to know what you have while you still have it, and to be a christian at such a young age, your parents are blessed, and your future children will be blessed, to have a mom that is obedient to the LORD, it will save you and them years of heartache and regret..bless you and yours-Tracy
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May 19th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Wow, what a resemblance you have to gram! I love that picture. I don’t think I have seen a picture with you smiling that big! It’s beautiful!
Hugs,
Aunt Jen
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May 19th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Oh yeah and I won’t explain about how glad I am that you have an awesome grandma there with you even though I don’t have my mom living close to me anymore………..Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Love you both!
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May 19th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
well hopefully that will be remedied soon!
LOVE YOU!
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May 19th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
LOL! I was LAUGHING MY HEAD OFF in that picture! everyone was being funny… haha!
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May 19th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
What a beautiful young lady you are and what great love you show toward your elders. Thanks for sharing this with us. I am an orphan and have no family so it really touches me to see a loving family. Now excuse me while I wipe the tears from my eyes. Eagle out!
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