introducing the family: grandma betty

this is my grandma. it looks like she has lipstick on but she doesn't wear it at all. most of her pictures are kind of weird like this one.

she lives upstairs in my house. she just sits in her chair all day and comes down for lunch, dinner and breakfast. she forgets a lot. sometimes she asks a question like, "why would you want to do that?" to something i say i want to do and it's really hard to answer her.

she has almost all of her teeth. and they are all sweet teeth. she says she doesn't have one sweet tooth at all. but she's crazy about candy and ice cream. if we're going to get ice cream she says, "is your dad gonna get us some sundaes (sounds like sunduhs)? ho! ho! ho!"

she's not very crabby at all.

her family tradition from the house she grew up in was yelling to see who can talk the loudest when everyone is talking at once. she does that at our house, too. i guess she passed the tradition on to us.

i have a little secret i did once -- my great aunt edith, my grandma's sister, was talking on the phone with grandma and i picked up the phone because i wanted to hear what they were saying.
they kept yelling at the same time, over each other. our old phone used to be broken and it had it made a crackling sound so when i put my hand over the mouthpiece so that they couldn't hear me on the phone the thing would crackle and my grandma would say, "i think someone is on the internet." and aunt edith would say, "oh, really? i didn't know that." at the end of the conversation i put my finger in my ear and rubbed it because i almost went deaf hearing their yelling.