Our Sunday evenings have looked very different through the years.
When I was growing up church night was Sunday night, but most churches have abandoned the Sunday night services, due to lack of participation. And I think that’s super sad.
Years ago when Keith’s mom and dad were living, otherwise known as Nana and Pop, we would go to their house every Sunday evening. Nana would cook some really delicious meals. Before I married Keith, I had never experienced ‘stupid’ taters. I rarely got to have salmon patties. And I had never tasted the really strange salmon stew. I guess you can probably figure out which one I was not a fan of. Nana’s house was always warm and inviting. She loved us all so very much. In fact, she was my very best grown-up woman friend next to my mama. It didn’t start out that way. She wasn’t really sure about that crazy Lander girl that swooped in and convinced her son to marry her… but that is a whole future post at http://www.lyrasusan.com!
When my boys were growing up we stood in front of the refrigerator on Sunday nights to:
- Have family conversations
- Share our calendar comparisons
- Plan our activity coordination
This post is really about our newest series of Sunday nights. Because it’s the end of an era. The visiting MANAW on Sunday night era. We have been visiting Manaw every Sunday night with a few exceptions for about nine years. Since my daddy died that has been somewhat of a tradition for Keith and I. The boys were grown and flown. We lost Nana and Big Buddy. Pop has also been gone for several years. So Manaw was our one remaining connection to that generation. I don’t think it was a decision to just start visiting her on Sunday night. It just seemed to be when the week slowed down and we had a day of rest, that we would spend it visiting her. She certainly was a force to be reckoned with! Especially when she was living alone at Reed place. But then she continued that tradition even when she moved in the Garden House.
She is home now. We are so happy for her. We can’t visit her on Sundays yet…
Over the course of the next few weeks or months I plan on having a ‘visit’ with Manaw on Sunday evenings. As I pack up her pictures, I will try to speak about them. I hope to attach a link for videos so you can see the pictures as I talk about them. I am doing this as a labor of love for her children, grands, and greats. So if you have a “Minute with Manaw” you would love to share, email me the story at lyrasusan@icloud.com! I might just share it the next Sunday evening!
I promise most of these won’t be long as this initial post is.
MINUTES WITH MANAW 
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