Grandma Seebeck

I remember my Grandma Seebeck better than any of my other grandparents. Maybe because she was the most fun. My kids love to hear stories I remember from the times I stayed with her. I was very young so these are a child's memories.

Grandma Seebeck kept a garden cart in the front porch and if I pestered her enough she would push me around the house in it. (never outside!)

Grandma Seebeck & Grandpa Seebeck slept in separate rooms. In grandma's room, in the top dresser drawer she kept little hair pins with rhinestones that she would let me wear & play with. In grandpa's room, there was an old doll in a sitting position rubber-banded to a board that I would play with. (I don't know why it was like that, but that's the way it always was???) I also got to jump on grandpa's bed. I remember the old white iron bed frame.

Grandma kept a little child's pail of rocks and a scoop behind the laundry room door that she would let me play with in the house. I see pails like that sold as antiques now.

There were tons of snails around the garage that she would let me catch and keep in a jar on a shelf in the back porch.

She would buy me a goldfish and let me stick my hand in the bowl and catch it over & over. (poor things)

A snack at grandma's house was getting a big tablespoon and going to the freezer and getting a big scoop of vanilla ice cream and eating it. Not a bowl, just a huge spoonful. It was Sooooo good! Or else she would keep a snickers bar in a drawer in the kitchen cut into little pieces and wrapped up in wax paper. In this same drawer she kept a bowl of cornstarch and little rubber finger tips that was a never ending source of amusement for a little girl.

There was a tiny bird cage with 2 plastic birds sitting on the perch that she kept in the cabinet in the kitchen. I loved to play it. She would also buy me little silver and rhinestones rings that were kept in there.

In the attic there was a sock monkey that hung from the rafters that always fascinated me. There was also an old trunk full of toys. Like little plastic pinball games and other strange old toys that I loved playing with.

Grandma would always try to get me to kiss the neighbor boy that lived across the street!!!!!

I loved eating at Grandma's. Even though now I know she wasn't a good cook at all! She would fix me Swanson's frozen chicken dinners that I thought were great. And she would boil most everything else. She fed me boiled cow tongue - peeled with salt and cow heart. I liked it....at the time!

Every time there was the slightest storm, Grandma would get the battery radio and flashlight and we would head for the basement. She had lived in Oklahoma and was terrified of tornados.

Anyone remember Jack Lalane? The first exercise program on TV? I remember watching that at her house and doing the exercises and trying to get her to do them with me.

Here's an old-old picture I found of her-

Grandma wrote the following on the back. It says verbatim:

Here Elsie says Maw hold your bellie in, I says why. She say so it don't stick out. I says like this with my hands on my bellie & by that Adolena snaped me, when I wasn't ready in Adolena slacks boy they didn't fit like Anna's.

Notice my little dog. Name Konrad Bismark. Ain't he the cuties thing. I think the world of him. Taken after a hard day of canning.

(notice the dog isn't real, it's a statue! Grandma Seebeck was really something else!)

Thanks for stopping by!

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My Sister

August 28, 2002

My sister was born 16 years before I was. Wasn't she a cutie?!

Here she is with our grandparents, Grandma & Grandpa Seebeck.

Oh my, who's that cute little baby she's holding? (also notice her hair, see how it keeps getting bigger?)

And BIGGER!

Here we are opening Christmas presents back in the 70's. I think this is a Budweiser bean bag chair we're opening????

And who can forget 'The Bump"?!

I think this wooden horse is about the only kind of horse you'll find my sister on nowdays. If you ever see her, ask her why!