I've been to my grandma's house twice in the past month. I haven't really been close with them in probably 15 years...haven't really seen them in 6. I am very excited and happy. I am planning on hanging out with my grandma more often and I am looking forward to finding out all the things she can remember form her childhood. I want to learn about where I came from.
This is a picture of my great grandmother, my great aunt, my grandma, and my great grandpa. He was a Nazi soldier that went missing...they never heard from him again. My grandma was saying that her mother did everything she could to find out what happened to him, but they never knew. Probably buried in a mass grave...sad. :( But he was a loving husband and father.

I want to get a small recorder and tape our talks about our family history. She was telling me that many of the people in her family were artists. One was a painter (one of her uncles) one was an opera singer...she invited me to come up some weekend and she can dig up pictures and I can bring my scanner and she wants to tell me stories. ^_^
I'm finding the older I get, I am becoming more about my roots. Especially since I got married. Family is more important...my art has become more important, and I feel like the more I find out where I came from, the better and better my well being will be.
I found out that my grandma's nickname is "Gikka" (geek-ah) because when she was a little girl her mother was teaching her to say her name and she couldn't say "Brigetta" (which in a native German tongue sound like brhea-gee-tah) and when we were leaving, I saw that her car plates say "gikka" ^_^
She loves Jason too. ^_^ I love the way their house is still basically the same as when I was a little girl. It smells the same, it feels the same. I also am recognizing a lot of how my mom has always decorated and the warm feeling she incorporated in her surroundings and how much like my grandma's they are.

I have started scanning a bunch of images from when I was little. ^_^ I will post a few Nana related ones here...







