miss you...

I scrapbooked....it's been awhile...

I was inspired by the paislee press design team...clean and crisp.

I know that I should work on my journaling...next layout, k?

The photo is circa 1972.  We were living in Ontario Canada at the time...little did I know it, but we were to move to the states 2 years later {we lived in Vancouver, BC inbetween}.

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That's me and my grandma, who we called Obaachan {japanese for grandmother}.   When I think back about the timing, I didn't really know her then...she lived in Seattle and we lived in Toronto.  The move stateside had a huge impact on my life.  One of the best things about it was that my Obaachan lived with us for several years.  I never did the daycare thing when I was growing up. 

When I was older and had my own car I would do my Obaachan's grocery shopping at Uwajimaya.  My Mom and I still chuckle about the fact that I know the weirdest japanese words...mostly grocery oriented:)

Recently, I've been making lunchtime trips to Uwajimaya....I realized that one of the perks is to hear the issei's chatting in Japanese {I'm a nisei}...totally reminds me of my Obaachan.  There are days that it makes me smile...other days that it makes me blue.  She passed away in 1999, 2 months before my boy was born.  She never got to meet him but  she did know that she was going to have a great-grandson.

I'm so happy that my kids are close to their grandmother's....I know that they learn a lot from each other.