As a child I often spent time living at my grandma's house whether it was on a day off when my mom was working or on the weekends and summers when I could spend multiple days to weeks at a time at her house. After my Grandfather passed away in 1979 I spent more and more time with my Grandma. Each evening (I don't remember which day it was on for certain) that the Lawrence Welk show was on my Grandma would turn it on and sit down...not matter what she was doing...and watch it. I often times remember her saying that we had to finish washing dishes quickly so that could sit and watch it. Often at the end of the show Lawrence Welk would stand up and flick his band leader baton and all the singers and dancer and others would come out and dance to the song "Tiny Bubbles in my Wine" and bubbles would come out from behind the band and fill the dance floor with bubbles. As I would look at my Grandma she would be smiling and tearing up both at the same time. I could tell that she missed my Grandpa.
This week's 50 Shades of Pink color is called Pink Bubbles by LA Colors and donated by Lynn Hudak of South Carolina. Lynn also happens to be my cousin's wife! Thank you Lynn for the awesome pink nail polish this week! I chose this color because of its vivid and bright hue but also because of its name.
Preparations for my Grandma's funeral back in January led us to looking through album after album and box after box to locate pictures to put up or put on a video. As I looked at pictures I found one of my Grandma and my first Grandpa, Clem WInkiewicz, that is to this day my favorite. In the picture, my Grandpa was looking straight ahead, but when looking at the picture its actually a profile of him. My grandma is looking at him with a smile. You can see in the picture from the look in her eyes and on her face that she truly loved my Grandpa...that he completed her. While she married again several years after my Grandpa had passed away, she never could look at my new Grandpa in that same way. Grandpa Clem would always and forever be her first love. It was Grandpa Clem who she would hold close and dance with, resting her head on his shoulders. When she would watch Lawrence Welk and watch the people dancing I could see in her eyes the memories of her and Grandpa dancing together. Those memories were the ones that she would recall to me a few weeks before her diagnosis when she would claim that Grandpa was there with her in her apartment. Grandma loved two men in her life as husbands but I know that in her heart, my Grandpa Clem was the one that she danced with in her dreams every night.
This week's nail polish is no accident. It was meant to be that I would get this sent to me so that I myself too would remember what that true feeling of love feels like as I look at my husband and know that even though we may have tough and rough times, that he completes me.
Grandpa Clem and Grandma (unknown year)
Pink Bubbles by LA Colors donated by Lynn Hudak
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