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Over the river and through the woods
To Grandmother's house we go.
The horse knows the way to carry the
sleigh
Through white and drifted snow.
By
Diane Forrest,
I used to sing this song every year on my way to my
grandmother's house at Christmas. Every
year when I was young, we would make the three hour trip to visit grandparents,
great grandmothers, great aunts and other family. We would always take those 4 generation
pictures...Great grandmother, grandmother, mother and me. I would listen as they talked about years
past, and how their Christmases were like.
One of the favorite traditions involved chocolate! (See where I get it from?) One of my great grandmother's sons lived in
California, and couldn't come home during the holidays. So every year he would send her a huge box of
chocolate candy. Well...because she had
so many family members, she would offer each person 1 piece. That was such a treasured piece of candy
because it was sent with love, and shared with love from family across the
country, to family at home. And...it was
chocolate!
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Today on Root Day, share some family memories with your
family, and if you are like me, you may want to write the stories down, or use
a tape recorder so you can pass stories along to future generations.
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