List of memories from the Two Months we were here before Mimi passed away:
-Always giving Elijah a hard time about kissing her on the cheek. He would always give her a kiss on the cheek before bedtime. It was their thing together! She wouldn't let him go to bed without giving her a kiss.
-Playing battleship with Elijah and he beat her!
-Going around in a circle at night before family prayer telling each other why we love each other, and she would always get emotional when it was her turn, when she talked about anyone and when anyone would tell her why they loved her. She would tear up everytime, even when it was a silly reason! She ALWAYS thought of the BEST compliments. She was very good at helping people feel good about themselves. She always saw the best in people.
-Keeping EVERYTHING the grandkids gave her. She told me when we were cleaning out the herb room that she kept everything because she never wanted the kids to feel like she didn't care about what they did. They comment to her all the time about how much they love it when she keeps everything they ever gave her. It was important to her that they felt validated in their gift giving.
-She would always do her best to do everything she could possibly do to help. Even when it hurt her.
-She would come out of her room in the morning after she had slept in and say, "I've got some lazy bones!"
-She would help Talia with her times tables and her math. She told her about how her mom (Grandma Connell) would quiz her with her times tables all the time in the car and she always did so well in school on her times tables because of those quizzes in the car. She would yell from across the room to Talia, "3x7!" And have Talia answer. And randomly call out times tables for her.
-She wanted to understand the crypto currency thing really badly. She was almost panicked to get it set up in time because she wasn't feeling well at all.
-She would let Talia take over with decorating and Talia LOVED it. She loved doing it with Mimi and having Mimi tell her where everything went, then Talia would arrange it.
-She watched Christmas Hallmark movies in the afternoons and Talia would snuggle with her to watch them.
-She would always talk about the kids behavior and what she saw as improvement while we were here. She always had such a good eye on behavior and how to make things better in a positive way. She would ask the kids such wonderful questions and get them thinking.
-There was one time we were around the table saying prayer over a meal and after the meal was finished she asked, "Why do you think we close our eyes for the prayer?". She didn't point out that the kids had opened their eyes, she asked them a question instead of accusing them of something. A wonderful conversation came from it. They were so open to her and her teaching them about things of a spiritual nature. She was amazing at teaching kids and helping them figure out the answer with her amazing questions.
-She came out one day and said, "I've been praying about Talia a lot. I think I know what I can do to help her and her love bucket." That is when she started watching chick-flics with Talia to spend one on one time with her. She was SO GOOD about seeing how someone's love bucket needed to be filled.
-She said one day, "I could spend all day with Gabe and never get tired of it!"
-She loved watching Joshua play with legos or anything else. She loved just sitting and watching him and enjoying his mind and his innocence.
-She did NOT like the bickering over Friday night movies!
-She loved playing games with the kids. Elijah was SO happy when he legitimately beat her in Battleship! And she was very impressed because that hardly ever happened!
-We went to the temple together (Brent and I) as often as we could while we were here. Every week I'd set up more appointments for us. Mom would always have the names ready for us to take to the temple. She was my buddy with that. We had made a pact that she would get names ready and I would take them through. She was excited to get names ready because it had been a while since she had been able to (because of Covid).
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