May 12, 1990: Greta and I left at 9:00 for Wahoo and Jayson's graduation. Late afternoon we went to Lincoln to Nancy's."
Sorry, but I will skip the destructive drilling tale to tell one on Nancy. The Dorothy J. mentioned above is not the person involved, but her last name reminded me of this story.
Not being ready to discuss the birds and bees with her still very young children, Grandma told Nancy, who was about 5 years old, an unusual story about how her newborn brother Tom came to be the newest member of the household. She told Nancy that she had fallen down and hurt her leg. Myrtle J. felt sorry for her and gave her a baby. For years and years Nancy wasn't sure whether she liked Myrtle J. or not because of that. Funny thing is, Grandma didn't recall telling Nancy the story. It was one of those motherly inspirations that come when a mom greatly needs to give an answer to end a discussion and pack it away for quite awhile. I think it was genius.
I have no graduation picture of Jayson, but here is one of he and one of his daughters at Grandma's 90th birthday party. And since I didn't find it in time to post on Grandma's 100th, here also is one of Grandma and young family members at that same party.
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