Classically Abby - December 27, 2021


5 Lessons I Learned From My Grandmother ⧸⧸ Remembering My Gaga

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Last week my grandmother passed away and I wanted to share 5 things that she taught me growing up. She taught me how to have hobbies, how to be creative, and how to live a balanced life. I remember her saying "A little something sweet ain't gonna kill you" and how she made chocolate milk.

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00:00:00.080 hello classic crew and welcome to today's video
00:00:03.600 where i'm going to be talking about five things my grandmother taught me
00:00:12.880 last week my grandmother passed away and i wanted to do a video talking about five things that she
00:00:22.000 taught me she and i were really very close growing up i used to go to her house all the time as a
00:00:28.160 kid i remember her house vividly and then she moved to an apartment when she got a little bit older
00:00:34.960 that was nearer to where my parents lived and i used to go over there every single tuesday night
00:00:40.640 for like the first two or three years of high school so she and i were really close now her
00:00:46.720 death wasn't sudden uh it was definitely something that was coming for a while but it's still really
00:00:52.880 sad and nostalgic when someone you love passes away and even if it doesn't feel like it was before
00:00:59.760 their time it's still it's still something that moves you and i am gonna miss her and i wanted to share
00:01:10.000 five things that she taught me because she did teach me things and i remember that i would often
00:01:17.600 write her letters and make her presence showing all of the things that we shared and the memories
00:01:23.520 that we had together and it's just a it's a meaningful time so i want to share these five
00:01:30.720 things with you hopefully you guys can learn something too and before we get into today's
00:01:34.720 video i do just want to say please subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and hit that
00:01:39.920 notification bell and if you'd like to subscribe to my substack newsletter it's classicallyabby.substack.com
00:01:46.080 and you'll get access to exclusive content so now let's get into today's video the first thing my
00:01:52.320 grandmother taught me was how to have hobbies my dad used to say about my grandmother that she was like 1.00
00:01:58.080 the perfect candidate for being retired because when she was retired she like took advantage of that time 1.00
00:02:06.160 and embraced all of the hobbies that she had so she painted she sewed she knitted and she taught me
00:02:13.440 all of those things uh she taught me how to knit she taught me how to sew she was the one who taught me 0.56
00:02:18.960 how to do all of those things and i remember going to her house as a little girl and we the first
00:02:23.760 things we made we made a skirt with a drawstring it was very simple it was made of fleece and we made
00:02:30.960 a teddy bear that i gave to my mom and i remember her teaching me all these things in a really fun way
00:02:38.800 and i always felt like she took me seriously and didn't just treat me as a kid she really
00:02:44.160 wanted me to learn so she didn't always step in and tell me what to do she would kind of let me
00:02:49.120 make some mistakes and watch and help me learn things and i i think that the reason that i love
00:02:54.960 kind of classic hobbies and these classic parts of femininity i think a lot of that comes from her 1.00
00:03:01.120 and i didn't even realize it until i started thinking back about it because i learned all of
00:03:06.960 these feminine hobbies from my grandmother and she taught them to me and that's really meaningful when
00:03:13.520 i think back on it so now every time i sew or i knit i'm gonna realize even more so that she was the
00:03:21.840 one who imparted that knowledge to me and that's really special and i hope to impart that to my daughters
00:03:29.120 and my children and so you know a little piece of her is being passed down always number two is
00:03:35.040 something i remember her saying which is a little something sweet ain't gonna kill you i remember her
00:03:42.240 kind of having this attitude towards life of just it's okay to have things in moderation don't like
00:03:48.160 drive yourself crazy with this stuff i remember every time i went to her house as a kid she would make
00:03:54.800 me chocolate milk and i never got chocolate milk at home so i would always have chocolate milk at her
00:03:59.840 house and that's what she would say she would say a little something sweet ain't gonna kill you and it 1.00
00:04:05.040 made me feel so much more at ease about just what i was eating and things about life just like it's okay
00:04:12.640 to have some sweetness when you know we know we want to be healthy we know we want to do what's right
00:04:18.800 for our bodies but it's also okay to just enjoy life a little bit and i think that that was just
00:04:24.960 a really good lesson to get even from the time i was a kid and uh actually my favorite movie now
00:04:32.000 is the movie that i used to watch with her growing up all the time we would make chocolate milk and then
00:04:37.760 we'd watch you've got mail and those two things i remember vividly doing at her house all the time
00:04:44.560 number three is that she taught me that creativity is never wasted i'm somebody who feels a real
00:04:52.000 pressure to if i'm gonna do something it needs to have a purpose but my grandmother wasn't that way
00:04:57.920 if she painted it didn't need to be sold it didn't need to be shown in a gallery it was something she
00:05:03.200 loved doing and then she would put it up on her own wall you know it was something that she did because
00:05:08.160 she liked it and she knew the value of creativity just for its own sake and it's something that i
00:05:15.680 have taken from her and i want to live out more now that she's gone i want to live that way more because
00:05:22.960 of her of her influence on me it's something that i think is really important i remember going to her
00:05:28.560 house she used to have like a computer room she really put her computer in her closet and i used to 1.00
00:05:34.720 sit in there and write i would just write stories and she would come over and bring me cookies or 0.66
00:05:40.160 bring me something to drink and but not really bother me and just let me write and then i would
00:05:44.800 write and i would print it and she would read it and we would read it together and she like would love
00:05:49.200 it and those stories were never used for anything it was just for the two of us to share and it was
00:05:54.080 really special and fun and something that she really encouraged in us was this feeling of you should
00:06:00.880 love to be creative because it's important to you as a person and expressing yourself and i thought
00:06:08.000 that was a really nice thing that she tried to impart to us number four is do something just because it
00:06:14.160 brings a child joy i remember as a kid my grandma used to get perms and she could get her perms with 0.99
00:06:22.720 like big curls or she could get these really tight corkscrew curls and they were close to her head
00:06:27.680 and i think she liked the bigger curls better but i liked the little corkscrew curls 0.99
00:06:36.800 and i would tell her that and i said i think you're so beautiful with the corkscrew curls i love
00:06:41.120 that that's my favorite and she would do it she she would get that hairstyle because i liked it 0.99
00:06:49.760 and i think that's just really sweet that she did that when i was like seven or eight i'm only
00:06:54.560 realizing it now as an adult that she just did that because it was nice not because she liked it
00:07:04.000 and i think that's a really nice lesson oh that caught me off guard i didn't expect to cry um but
00:07:11.040 yeah i just think that's a really nice way to live life is like she wasn't vain about it she did
00:07:17.760 something that she knew i loved in the same way that everyone in my family called her gaga because 0.65
00:07:22.720 her first grandchild couldn't say grandma and so that was her name she became gaga the first grandson 0.59
00:07:28.960 called her gaga and that's what she became called so my whole life i called her gaga she's always gonna 0.99
00:07:33.840 be gaga to me and that i thought was very sweet you know she also had a necklace a gold necklace that she 1.00
00:07:42.160 wore all the time and the kiddos would when they were little babies they would suck on it 0.87
00:07:48.080 and i don't think she cared because when you looked at it or i know she didn't care because when you
00:07:52.960 looked at it it was really like all of the detail had worn away but she loved that she like loved that
00:07:58.960 it was something that she could wear that showed her grandchildren her grandchildren's presence and i just
00:08:05.760 think that's like a really a lovely thing about her and something i want to do as a mom is just
00:08:11.840 doing something because it would make my my kids happy like wearing something silly on a day that
00:08:17.520 they want to choose my outfit like i think that'd be so fun is just not being so uptight all the time
00:08:25.360 and the last lesson i want to share that my grandmother taught me is that life is fun close to
00:08:30.800 the end she said to my dad about life she just said it was fun because she knew that the end was
00:08:36.720 coming and i think that that's really moving my grandmother treated life as a big adventure and i
00:08:43.440 would like to do that too and i'd like to remember that in the times when things are hard because she
00:08:49.280 didn't have the easiest life there were a lot of things in her life that were hard but she still
00:08:54.240 treated life like a big adventure and i think that's a really good philosophy to have so that is it
00:09:00.640 for today's video uh i hope you guys learned something i hope you guys can take my grandmother's
00:09:07.360 lessons to heart and just live out her her legacy because she was a really special lady
00:09:15.840 so thank you guys so much for watching if you haven't subscribed to my channel already please do so
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