Thursdays at Zamma's

Today's project was making flower arrangements. Can you guess which is Lili's? Let me tell you, she did not want ANY help. Sophie's is the one on the right--it had to be a perfect bunch and all of the flowers had to be alike. Then Lili took pictures of them with my camera. The blur in the 2nd picture is Sophie trying to get in the picture.

Lili made a circle on the floor with a necklace and said, "Let's play like these are my rainboots and this is a puddle."

Zamma turns ??

Flowers from KT (delivered by Don Sweet)

Strawberry Chantilly Cake (Bagatelle Bakery) from Lena
Chocolate Sheet Cake made by ❤Chloe❤
It all added up to a perfect day!

Chloe turned 14!

Part IV -- The back of my Genogram Valentine

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Valentine (Part III)

My sweet Chloe--the first of my God-sent Valentine grands:

My favorite picture of Mason ever, hangs next to my Grandma Jost who died when my Dad was only 2 years old. That is her next to my Grandpa in the red heart. How perfect to have her embellished with pearls--some people believe that pearls form when angels pass through the clouds of heaven. I have always heard that she was a wonderful person who could sing like an angel. I knew 4 of her 5 children, so in some ways, I feel like I knew her. She lived on through them.

Part II "Concatanare"--I love my new word!

We are never too old to learn new words. My new word to describe my genogram is from a Latin word, "concatanare", which means "to link together". I look at this line of people who I love dearly and realize that most of them never met each other. The only common denominator is ME! I love them all--and I have even never met some of the people on my family ribbon.

Sophie Juliet starts out my genogram on the left side. Next to her are my great-grandparents (Jost) who died before I was born. My relationship to them is the same that my relationship will be to Sophie's children. It is so hard to believe that I know so little about them. I only met 2 of my great-uncles in that family picture.

My sister, Lena. Love the red jewel that Melanie added:
This next part of the chain is interesting.

My brother who died at age 27 (37 years ago),

My little grandson, Miles,

and my great-grandfather Priebe, the father of my dear grandmother--my father's mother. I never met my grandmother or Great-Grandpa Priebe. They were gone too soon from this life...

My Amazing Genogram Valentine! from Melanie (Part I)

Who in the world would think of creating a genogram for Valentine's Day for her dear old Mom? An 8' long Valentine--embellished with crystals, pearls, wax seals, and glitter? She and Matthew are conspicuously absent on my strand of concatenation*. I must add them ASAP. Oh, she also forgot another important person (my Dad). I must add these 3 people soon, as the line is not complete without them!

* - Concatenation (from Latin concatenare, to link together) is taking two or more separately located things and placing them side-by-side next to each other so that they can now be treated as one thing.

Today I have been studying my Valentine. I took pictures of it in segments. I LOVE this segment: Lili Ruth and Ruth. 2 people who I love dearly. I surely do hope my Mom is able to look down from heaven and see this little angel who shares her name! I love them being next to each other on my genogram Valentine. One meaning given for the name, Ruth is, "vision of beauty". I just know my Mom would love this little girl to pieces!

This is a precious segment of my lineage--the 3 grandparents I had in my life. I was only 4 years old when my Grandpa Jost died, but I have carried my love for him in my heart all of my life. I remember that he loved to hold me. My Grandpa Ensz lived to almost 100--I loved him and Grandma with all of my heart!
I still have a lot of my Valentine to share...