Memory Lane

Recently for an assignment in school I had to write about some of my life experiences and people who have influenced me. The assignment reminded me of some pretty funny things!
My grandmother is the BEST when it comes to forgiveness!!! For some reason whenever my cousins and I got together when we were little we would get in BIG trouble. I can remember several times when we messed up things at her house and had to go tell her. Specifically I remember one time we were going to put on a play for the family. We were trying to find a quite place (away from the other kids) to practice so they wouldn’t see our play before we performed. We decided that Grandmother’s craft room was the best place. She had locked it to keep the little kids from ruining her things. We found the key and let ourselves in. While practicing our play we got a little distracted. My cousin and I decided to have a karate war…one kick…and BOOM!!! Rachel went flying into the tower of paint cans! (Grandmother’s house was on the market and they were in the process of painting all the rooms) One of the paint cans spilt ALL OVER Grandmother’s brand new carpet! She was so quick to forgive us. I remember being terrified when my mom told us we had to tell her. Another time my cousin Danielle and I were making cookies one Sunday afternoon. All of the adults were napping. For some reason we had decided that the cookies tasted better if you threw the dough up in the air a few times before cooking it…well the throwing got a little out of control…one of the cookies stuck to the ceiling of Grandmother’s 4 month old house and left a big greasy spot! Panicked we threw flour on the ceiling to try to cover our tracks, we even took tooth picks and tried to scrap all the dough out of the pattern on the ceiling. Once we realized it was still noticeable despite our best efforts we knew we had to tell Grandmother. She laughed!