Vera Louise Harwood Cheek Tribute

i dont have too many memoeries of my granny but i do remember .. as nancy said .. her sitting in that old rocking chair and reading her bible .. and i also recall us going to visit her and nancy getting after us with a broom cuz we were messing up grannies house and she wanted to keep it clean for her .. but sadly to say the last thing i remember of her was the ambulance coming to take her to the hospital .. i never seen her again after that .. but what memories i do have of her i hold on to .. after her passing i was sitting in grannies old bedroom playing with my barbie dolls and was talking to my granny whome i thought was really in front of me ..she asked me .. and i can remember it so clearly today ...how is your moma .. vivian and nacy and all the others doing .. are they holding up ok and tell them i love them that im with god now ..im happy .. well granny tell my moma and daddy i said hello and i miss and love you all so much .. till i get there with yall im sending out hugs and kisses for all

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

When you thought I wasn't looking,
I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I wanted to paint another one.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you feed a stray cat,
and I thought it was good to be kind to animals.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you make my favorite cake for me,
and I knew that little things are special things.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I heard you say a prayer,
and I believed there is a God I could always talk to.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I felt you kiss me goodnight,
and I felt loved.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw tears come from your eyes,
and I learned that sometimes things hurt, but it's all right to cry.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw that you cared
and I wanted me to be everything that I could be.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I looked.
and wanted to say thanks for all the things
I saw when you thought I wasn't looking.

Nancy, thanks for sharing about your mom Vera. She reminds me so much of my grandmother (who was born a few years before your mom). My grandma was strong in her faith and her role as a mother came so naturally and instinctively. These were God's angels on earth, here to show everyone else how it's done. May God continue to shine the light on your mom's spirit and keep her forever.

I thought of you on my birthday and wished you could have been here with me. But I know you were there in spirit.
I love you MOM

She taught me how to love and how to give to others. She never thought of herself first or even last for that matter. Making sure we didn't do without anything we needed. She is the one who taught me about God and his glorious love. I have my faith because she had faith. She had such a forgiving nature. If anything was bothering her you would never know it cause she gave all her problems over to God and forgot about them. I will always remember her sitting in the living room rocking chair reading her great big bible.
I still have that bible, it is a little worn out due to how much she would read it and some of the grandkids when they were small wrote in it .But it is my prized procession. I never remember her ever screaming or yelling at any of us. That just wasn't her way. I only remember her giving me one whipping and that was for not wanting to get on the school bus in first grade. I didn't want to leave her. I was the youngest so I finally had gotten her all to myself because everyone else was in school. So when it came my turn to start school I wanted to stay with her. I remember her taking alot of crap from my dad that she didn't deserve. He never gave her the kind of love she should of had. But she never complained, she just carried on. And sometimes when he would be fussing at her I would hear her in the kitchen singing and praising God to drown him out. It would make him so mad.. But that's how she dealt with things. She let go and let God.

I remember her singing to me whenever I was sick it would comfort me so much and help me sleep. When I was around 12 or so I always got charlie horses in both my legs really bad and was unable to sleep . She would rub my leggs until I feel asleep