TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR SINGALONG
ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND HELLO! MY BABY AFTER YOU'VE GONE BILL BAILEY, WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME? YOU'RE A GRAND OLD FLAG AMERICA THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER HOME ON THE RANGE OLD FOLKS AT HOME POLLY WOLLY DOODLE	CLEMENTINE DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES COME, JOSEPHINE IN MY FLYING MACHINE FOR ME AND MY GAL AVALON ALOHA OE CAROLINA IN THE MORNING GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY

Excerpts from the Book

"Grammie and me, we do everything together!" Grammie Midge's youngest grandson James always said. And it was true! They did do all sorts of things together.

James' Grammie lived in a little house on Fifth Street, in the same little town in which she herself had grown up. This little house was just down the street from the house where she had been raised as a little girl.

Her little house on Fifth Street was where she raised six children. And now, this was where all her children and grandchildren came to visit her. And so, this little house was where her youngest grandson, James, came to visit her. Whenever James visited, Grammie and he did many wonderful things together.

Before James' grammie was a grammie, she was a very hard working mother, and was employed at a factory. After her husband died at quite a young age, she went to work at the factory to support her family. She worked very diligently at the factory, and she was a very busy mother as well.

After getting up very early each weekday morning to go to work at the factory, she came home, cooked meals, washed and ironed clothes, and did many other things too. She never complained. It never ceased to amaze her children how she had done all this, and they were all very grateful.

Grammie's children loved her very much. They came to visit her often in the house in which they all had grown up, and brought with them their own children to see her. When they visited, they often presented her with little gifts and tokens of their love, which she appreciated. But most of all, she appreciated the gift of being able to see her children and grandchildren.

She liked to see that they were happy and well, and was pleased that they desired to come look in on her in her little house.

Grammie Midge and her youngest grandson James seemed to have a very special relationship. James seemed to have a special connection with his Grammie. He truly loved to come and visit. He would beg his mother and father to take him to see his Grammie. He liked to go to visit her more than any place he could think of. And James' parents often took him to see his grandmother.

When James came to his Grammie's, he and his grandmother would make cookies together (and more importantly, eat the cookies together!)

They would eat the cookies with wonderful milk, which James only got to drink at his Grammie's house. This was not the thin, watery skim milk which James' health-conscious family drank, but delicious, thick, very cold whole milk.

This milk tasted much more like the milk Grammie remembered drinking when she would visit her aunts and uncles who lived out in the country when she was a little girl.

It was sort of out of fashion to drink this kind of milk nowadays. Some said it wasn't even healthy (too much fat!). But Grammie felt it was the best sort of milk to go with the cookies she and James would make and eat- and James agreed!

Sometimes James and his Grammie would play games together. Checkers or Tic-Tac-Toe, it didn't matter what sort of game they played, they just had a great time playing together!

It didn't really matter who won either. It just mattered that they spent this time together. James thought it was neat that his Grammie, whom his parents said was eighty years old, still liked to play games.

One day, when James asked to go see his Grammie, his mother told him, "James, we have something to tell you. Your Grammy is making a move."

© 2003 Michael D. Purvis.