Ella’s sisters – Maddy and Sarah at the graduation – hard to believe that come fall – Sarah is the only one left at home – she enters H.S, in the Fall and Maddy enters her Junior year and plays and starts soccer for Lynchburg University. She will play against Ella.
Ella’s number one fan – her nephew Bode who adores her – here he is wearing Ella’s old sweatshirt she gave him!
After the game – he ran to her and she picked him up – he adores her and she is so good to him. That is our Ella!
The Three Sisters – Maddy – Ella and Sarah.
Ella’s mother Debby – Ella – her best friend Olivia and her mother Amy – they have lived beside each other all their lives and the mothers are close friends. What also is unique – they have Sarah from Debby and Justin from Amy who are also the same age and in the same grade who are as close as Ella and Olivia.
Sarah and Justin – same age – same grade and close friends – neighbors for life.
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Ella – our second oldest granddaughter – enrolling in Randolph College in Lynchburg Va.
We called her “TINY” as she was growing up –
Her father came up with that nickname –
Today she stands 5′ 8 1/2 ” –
Our little girl is all grown up!
Along with her entrance into the four year program – she will also play college soccer – being recruited – she had two schools to select from – and it just so happens to be cross town from the University of Lynchburg – where her sister starts on the soccer team there – and yes they will compete against one another!
Ella with her mother Debby – all three granddaughters are as tall or taller than their mother. Debby’s mother – Sherry – is 5′ 9″ – so they are most likely inheriting the Swedish genes from her.
It is a beautiful campus – nestled in the foothills surrounding Lynchburg.
The soccer field a easy walk from the dorms.
Ella with her father Mike.
She endured two injuries during her Middle school and H.S.
Both were broken bones in her feet.
One she was stepped on with a cleat
and the other she just landed wrong on it.
She lost two seasons of playing soccer
but when she did – was recruited by two different colleges.
Today she walks the path to her future!
Due to the Pandemic – her H.S. soccer season was moved from the fall to the spring.
She is about to begin playing –
Her travel soccer was played although the number of games reduced.
She competed and will move onto the next level in the Fall.
Often times you look on the other side of the fence – and then there comes a time you get a chance to walk at a place that would look the same 300 years ago! Here is that place at the far end of Cherry Grove – S.C. where no houses are built – no piers or docks – just sand – ocean and trees and shrubs – a deserted beach!
This I think is what the coast line looked like long before the settlers came here. No buildings – just raw nature – surf – and sand!
First – you have to find the path through the trees and shrubs to get to the beach!
Finding a very large tree washed upon shore – perhaps 60 feet long!Sherry Tammy Cassidy Bode Taylor
Walking along the surf – no one in sight – imagining that this is how nature looked centuries ago!
And then we turn around and in the distance the pier – broken from the last major storm! Mother and daughters – solitude – listening to the surf – and time to turn around – head back to the houses.
In the background – the end of the buildings – the broken pier and a deserted beach – and looking ahead into nature what it looked like all those years ago. Tammy – Cassidy – Sherry (MorMor) Bode Taylor
This is a place where the past meets the future –
and we had the pleasure to bring the family
to see – hear and experience it!
Walking back to the future – Bode and MorMor!
Walking to the past from the future!
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MORMOR – Swedish for MOTHERS-MOTHER – that has become her name for the three little ones!
Sherry has introduced crafts to all the grand kids –
and to this day – the three older ones still do crafts!
Taylor Bode Cassidy 10 6 10 years old.
All you have to do is say craft and the go right to the table – no fuss!
Busy once again – crafting – she teaches them and now Cassidy helps the other two. She is the one who texts – calls or zooms her MORMOR every day!
Cassidy – who can do any craft by herself – and often sets by herself with her IPAD – listening to instructions and creates pictures and drawings that are much larger than what she sees on the IPAD – drawing freestyle!
The older ones have that same talent – Ella has won awards for her creations.
Taylor – whom loves her alone time – building farms – houses – horses out of LEGO’S!
Bode -the one who is hard to slow down – always on the move – loves his craft time with MORMOR!
She teaches them – one at a time – not only crafts – but life itself!
Here they are after creating their make a shell wish – and MorMor helping to hang those wishes!
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There is a place – next to the ICW – in Vereen Memorial Park – where you find a shell – date it and your name – hang it from a tree – and then make a wish – hundreds of the hang and this one is from our Taylor!
At ten years old – she already is five foot tall – she will someday be taller I think than her MorMor( Sherry) who is 5′ 9″ must be the Swede coming through!
I am little – some day I will be bigger – so she says – but every day she either calls or texts her MorMor ( Sherry ) and that sweet little soft voice – “I love you MorMor ” here she hangs her wish!
Cassidy showing her shell for a wish! I think she looks just like Taylor in this picture!
Bode – hanging his seashell wish – the only boy out of six grand children!
I have said – Cassidy and Bode should of been the twins – they are two peas in a pod!
Bode Taylor Cassidy
They came to spend a long weekend with us –
seeing where we live and where we are building our new home!
They were so excited – and hiking was on our things to do!
We had told them there was a place to make a wish and hang the shells from a tree!
But first you must search for the right shell
then date it and put your name on it!
MorMor – leading Taylor – Cassidy and Bode on a search for their own perfect sea shell!
MorMor(Sherry) inspecting each one as they bring them to her!
Tammy Taylor Cassidy MorMor standing in the seashell tree beach – overlooking the ICW!
Cassidy Taylor and MorMor getting their wish shells ready to hang!
Taylor with he make a wish shell.
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Cassidy after hanging her make a wish sea shell!
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First you gather the ingredients – then you gather the grand daughters and their mother!Mother ( Debby) Ella Sarah Sherry ( grand ma) Maddy
Memories are made each year during the holidays –
making Christmas cookies is one of them!
Sherry has done this for years – and they all love it!
They laugh and laugh at her and with her!
The results – or a small fraction of the results – all decorated by each of the grand daughters!
She teaches them her heritage and is passed down generation to generation.
Sherry is Swedish – her grand mother was born in Sweden.
She is 5 ‘ 9″ tall – and Ella is almost as tall – Sarah will be that also and Taylor at 10 years old
comes up to her chin!
The temptations are there – YUMMY!She is a educator – teaching them to be themselves – honor – compassion and self worth!
Respect is what they have for her.
Admiration – and laughing – both at her and with her.
Going shopping with Grandma!
MEMORIES for a lifetime!
Ella Sarah Sherry
We will come up once more and spend a couple days and Christmas eve.
Then we will go back to Tammy’s for Christmas day!
The little ones are so excited and she made cookies with them also!
To them she is not grand ma – but MORMOR – mother’s mother in Swedish!
After Christmas we will once again head back to S.C.
Knowing that Memories were once again made
and captured into this blog
for future reading – seeing !
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My little contribution to the cookie making!ELLA will be on a soccer team in college – and will play against her sister Maddy at the University of Lynchburg!
She would come down those stairs to say good night
give hugs and this would happen several times!
She was always asking when we would come back.
Bode – so much like Cassidy but all boy!
Every morning without fail
from 6 to 6:15 AM.
Down those stairs he would come or if I were on the front porch
climb up onto my lap.
” I LOVE YOU PAPA”!
As simple as that!
Taylor or “T” as I call her
so mature – so kind – who only wants to ride horses!
She takes lessons once a week –
She knows how to groom them and saddle them
how to clean their hooves.
“T” who just wants her ALONE time-
in her room reading or playing with her horses and lego’s!
WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGER!
We spent almost three months with them
One time they spent a year with us.
Sherry is their “MORMOR”
Swedish for MOTHER’S MOTHER!
That is all they have ever called her.
Bode at five is now golfing with his daddy!“T” is so fast growing up!Cassidy is the one who teaches the others crafts – just as her MORMOR teaches others!Cassidy is her MORMOR’S SHADOW!
Yes – missing the three little ones
The older three are growing up
one in college – one about to graduate
and one who wants to be with grandma!
The three little ones – who are young enough
to see we are now at a distance and call all the time.
And then there is Tammy – their mother
who in all her life has never lived more that two hours away
Everyone celebrates their birthday on a special day !
It is very rare to celebrate your birthday with your child !
But – how rare is it to celebrate your birthday
with TWO of your children !!!
Taylor – Tammy – Cassidy all share the same day September 3rd.
Nine years ago the twins were born –
43 years ago – Tammy was born –
all on September 3 rd. !!!
Cassidy and Taylor
The twins had to be delivered early
The doctor said Taylor was growing and Cassidy wasn’t !
And so it has been all their lives
They grow at the same pace now
Taylor and Cassidy
Alike but different – same as their size –
one athletic ( Cassidy ) Gymnastics –
one who loves and rides horses ( Taylor )
both who adore their mother and MORMOR ( SHERRY ) Mothers mother !
Tammy and Sherry
Tammy – played basketball – soccer and in the marching band growing up !
Tammy in the marching band all those years ago
Today – she runs her own business –
Two of them actually
One Health and Nutrition
as a Sales Coordinator for the Juice Plus Company
Tammy at her own store 529kidsconsignloudoun
The other is her own store she opened up over a year ago !
A kids consignment
dealing in only upscale clothing ages 3 months to size 14 !
Her store is open six days a week and she has four part time employees !
Cassidy so little but so feisty Taylor so loving – so mature
So all have the same day as a birthday means days and days of celebrations
Daughter and Mother
Mother and daughter so much alike!
Marcus and Tammy husband and wife
Marcus – our son in law – daddy to the kids !
Cassidy -Tammy and Taylor the birthday party at our house and Bode’s handFit bits from us they were so excited and wear them every day trying to out do each other in steps !!!!The little guy Bode watching he and Cassidy are two peas in a pod !!!!
As the years pass – we have a door upstairs –
on the back of that door recorded with dates and names
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