The Queen of KAOS @Home

When I saw this, it immediately came to mind that I better gather some pictures for Christmas gifts, the grandmother’s always love them.

But this year there are no gramma’s to give them too.

Nana Brown used to collect family pictures. They covered her livingroom and every time you went to visit you would get updates on who was doing what, she always knew.

At reunions, and funerals, many times I recognized the people there from the photographs in her livingroom. Her updates made it easier to know them and to put me at ease when I met them.

She would have loved this. If you have gramma’s and grampa’s, check it out, it’s an electronic picture frame that works a little like a power point presentation, you can load your pictures into it and then they can watch a never ending presentation of their favourite people :0)

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First thing Monday I got the call that my husband’s grandmother had passed, our Nana Brown.

 She was an amazing woman, one who was far before her time, having one of her children out of wedlock back when it was certainly not cool, being married three times… one marriage isn’t talked about much, I gather it wasn’t all roses, and she lost two good men, one to the war and one to a tragic work accident, leaving her for many years of her life raising 4 girls alone.

Having only 2 girls, I can only imagine!

My husband often called her Mukluk Annie, a family nickname but he doesn’t know where the name came from. I searched “the google”, and I think it was because she got her drivers license when she was 56 and did a lot of travelling, especially in Northern Ontario where she had family. There is a famous restaurant in the middle of nowhere in the Yukon near Alaska named Mukluk Annie’s.

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One of my new favourite blogs is called “Confessions of a Housewife”.

There is always something of interest going on. Today it was a question basically about how we define being a good housewife ourselves and the basic concept of being a “housewife” (in my understanding :0)

I posted my response to this very complicated and timely issue.

You can see the original post and my comment at

http://dillydesigns.com/2007/08/19/how-to-be-a-good-housewife/#comment-4865 

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