Nana

In mid-October, my grandmother passed away. Since I can remember, we have always had 4 generations of women in one household. When I was my daughter's age, it was my great-nana, nana, mom, my sister and I. I was pretty young when my great-nana passed away and it didn't effect me really badly, due to my age. My daughter is 9 now, and she had always lived with Nana all her life. When she would get home from school, the first person she'd go to was Nana to share her day. A few weeks before Nana fell ill, Alexia went in her room with an armful of Pokemon stuff to teach her all about them and my Nana loved every bit of it. They were very close. She passed away almost 2 weeks before Alexia's 9th birthday, so the rest of the year has been hard. Especially on Alexia. Nana wasn't there for her birthday or Christmas. Alexia got her a peacock pin for Christmas anyways and we sent it to my aunt in Massachusetts to bury the pin at the grave site. What does this all have to do with Pleo? I was thinking today how much I wished she was here to see Alexia get her Pleo and win the contest. She would have loved Pleo. She loved animals. I think some of my animal obsession came from her. I know she would have enjoyed Pleo a lot. She was not all that into technology and wouldn't care how advance Pleo is, she would just have loved how he acted. Setting up a new fish tank too, recently and thought of how my Nana would love it. She always loved when I would set up fish tanks and decorate them. She loved watching the fish. I use to have a moray eel and every time I fed her, I would have to call my nana in to come and see it eat. Same with the bearded dragon, she loved to watch me feed the dragon grasshoppers. She was the one who bought me the bearded dragon. She was never a lover of reptiles, but one day she went into the pet shop I work at and went to the reptile wall and saw the lizards. Iguanas, collared lizards, uromastyx, bearded dragons, monitors, geckos, etc and she asked why didn't I get one. She liked the Nile Monitor, but I told her they were like mini-alligators, too aggressive and they grow huge. She saw the bearded dragons, and I said they were nice lizards, so she told me to show her what tank they needed and she bought everything. The whole incident was bizarre. LOL Then she was the influencial one on my mom when I wanted to get Satin the Sphynx and later a Persian we named Lace. Satin use to spend a lot of time with Nana too. I miss her. I wish she was here too see Alexia win, and Pleo, and the fish tank.

Posted January 17 at 22:55 PM