B & C | amee's Blog

    These past few days have been pretty interesting. My family and I have been cleaning the house and entertaining a really old family memeber!!! Let me start from the beginning ok here we go~

      Mom got a call from our great Grandma Emma Baty. She called and said she wanted to come and pay a visit. So they assigned us all chores around the house to clean. Each of us had a partner. I got stuck with Chirstina who never does anything but talk about her boyfriend that everyone thinks is a trouble maker. Rolland. There I was mopping the up stairs bathroom floor. While she sat on the counter sighing and spraying the mirror.

       I looked up at her. "Christina, are you going to help?" I asked her. She turned and looked at me. "Ahh! I am! DOnt you see I'm cleaning the mirror?!?!?!" She asked. I looked at the mirror and there was only one circle that was clean. "Ohh ok, what's up with you and Rolland??" I asked. Then she turned. "Ok, well the other day he called and was like, we dont really talk anymore and I think we should see other people. What does that mean!" She asked.

      I rolled my eyes as she continued to talk. "I really dont understand him. He says that I'm beautiful and sweet and he loves me and...." I stopped and looked up at her. "Whoa whoa wait a second. He said he loves you?" I asked. "Yeah, so?" She asked. "Uhm, well what did you say back?" I asked her. "I said I loved him to." She smiled. "Christina your moving to fast. Maybe you should slow down a bit." I suggested. "Slow, down? Your silly... Why am I even talking about this with you? Your not very good at this stuff." She said. "What ever... I was just trying to help." I said to her. She sighed and contiued to do nothing.

     Friday finally arrived. I havent seen my Great Grandma in forever. I think I was eight or ten. I cant remember. But she didnt seem like a great grandma at the time. She seemed like well an aunt. She was so full of life.  When Mom and Dad walked her in the house we all got up and looked to see an older looking women but still looked good for her age. Her hair was bond and she had blue eyes. She looked about 5'3 or so.  She smiled and pointed at Mark. "Help your father with my bags." She said. "Well hi to you too." He mumbled. He walked outside.

    She looked at us all. "Hi, I'm you Great Grandma..." She smiled and rolled her eyes. "God, I hate saying that. I would like for you all to call me by my name. Emma." She said. She hugged Hayden first. "My my, look at those." She said pointing to her chest. Hayden smiled and looked blushed. Next was Christina. "Well, you look the same dear. Smell different though." She turned to Tonya. "Hi dear... You look great, look at your cheeks!" She pinched her cheeks. "Hi Great Grandma..." Tonya hugged her. "No, it's Emma..." She said. "Right sorry..." Tonya giggled and looked nervous.  She turned and looked at Mandy. "Humm...." She tapped her chin. "What happend to you?" She asked. Mandy rolled her eyes and kept her arms crossed. "I'm afraid to hug you." She said to Mandy. She looked up at me. "Look at you Amee, you have grown so much!" She laughed and hugged me. "No dont boss me around just because your much bigger then me." She kept her face with a serious look. I was a little bit confused by it.

    As she hugged all the little younger ones Mark walked in and was carring a fish bowel with a gold fish swimming around in it. She turned. "Hey be careful with Harry..." She said. "Did you bring you whole house Grandma?" Mom asked. "I should have huh?" She laughed and sat down. "Now where am I staying?" She asked. "The guest room, just out there." Mom showed her. "Good, I'm tired, I missed my nap. So I'll be seeing ya." She walked to the room and layed down on the bed and fell asleep.

     The next day she was sitting on our porch with her cane and her straw hat on. I walke dout onto the porch and sat on our porch swing. She smiled and starred as I swang. "You are so lucky to be young." She smiled. I turned and looked at her. "I am?" I asked. "Yes ma'am you are. When I was young I did everything I cant do now." She said. "Well, like what?" I asked. "For one I cant swing." She said.  "Sure, you can. Come on." I got off the swing and pulled her up. "I cant swing, I just cant." She said. "Sure, you can. Come on..." 

  We walked over to the swing and I helped her onto it. Then I sat next to her.  "See now all we have to do is push our legs back and forth." I said. "See your doing it!" I smiled. "Amee I am! I'm swinging!" She cheered. "Yeah see it's not hard." I said. "Amee, the las time I swang was when I was well, your age your how old?" She asked. "Seventeen, I'll be eighteen in July." I said to her. "I'm not retarded dear." She said.

   Then Mom came outside. "Grandma your swinging?" She asked. "Yes I am. Amee braught me over here." She said. "Well I'm proud but your doctor doesnt want you to over work yourself." Mom said walking over to us. "Oh hash up! I can swing. My doctors a retard." She giggled. I smiled. "Well scoot over then." I scooted over and  Mom sat in the middle of us. "See this is nice." Mom said.

   Later that night Emma didnt want to get off the swing, but she had to go and feed Harry.  I fallowed her into her room and handed her the can of fish food.  "Watch this Amee." She said. I looked down at the bowel. She stuck her finger over the bowel and Harry jumped up over her finger and landed on the other side of her finger. "Whoa thats cool Emma." I said. She was so proud of her fish. "How long did that take for him to learn that? I asked her. "Harry is a fast learning fish. About two months." She droped a pinch of food in the bowel  and Harry charged for it.

   Before she went to bed I looked at the pictures she braught with her. They were all black and white and one of the pictures had a women holding a baby and another with an older women holding what looked like the same baby. "Areyou admirring my photo's?" She asked getting into bed.  "Yeah I was, just looking. Whose the baby?" I asked her. "Thats my daughter which is your grandma." She said. "Oh... You look like her." I said sitting on the floor. "Do you ever miss  her?" She asked me.

     You see my Mom's Mom who is my Grandma died of cancer. "Yeah sometimes. Do you?" I asked her. "Yes, I do. It's so hard to out live your own daughter." She said. "You know I'm not going to bite." She said patting her bed for me to sit next to her. I got up and did so.

   Then she giggled. "What is it?" I asked her. "Well that's what Clide to my Mom when I was a child." She said. "Who? Uncle Clide?" I asked. "No Bonnie and Clide? THe robbers?" She said. "What? You met them?" I asked her. "Yes I did. My mother and I both talkde to them. They gave us a ride." She said. "And? Tell me the story." I said to her.

   She sat up and began her story. "Well I was four at the time and remember everything. Even what I was wearing.  A white dress with blue shoes and a blue ribbon in my hair. Our car had broken down so we began to walk to the nearest gas station. Mother held my hand as the sun hit our skins and made us sweat. Mother was pregnant at the time but not that far along, just a few weeks. I began to cry because I was hungrey and tired and hot. When this beautiful black car drove up and parked next to my Mother. A women with curlie blond hair rolled down the window. And she says. "Can we give you a ride?" Mother looked happy to see that someone wanted to give us a ride! She hesitated she knew that the women looked familar. Then the mand driving had his hair slicked back and says "Come on I wont bite." So opened the back seat and buckled me in and buckled herself in. The man then took his hat and put it on his head. She tied a scarf around her hair and put some white sun glasses on.

     "What's your name?" The women asked touching my leg. I smiled and hid behind my Mother. "Her name is Emma." Mother said sitting me back up. Then the man asked. "Are you strangers hungrey?" Mother nodded her head. "Well then will just have to take them to the nearest food stop. It's right a head." The women said. The women looked back at me and handed me the scarf that was on her head. "Here you can have this. It would look beautiful in your hair." She smiled. I took it. "Emma what do you say?" Mother asked. So I told the women thank you and the man came up to a stop. Then Mother reached over and took the scarf and put it in my pocket. "Here is some cash that should fix your car and you tummies from grummbling." He smiled and handed mother a wad of money. "Thank you... Come along Emma." She pulled my arm. "Good bye Emma, you be a good girl now." The women said waving bye. I waved bye and soon as Mother stepped out of the car they took off. Speeding, I watched the dirt fly threw the air. Then when we walked inside Mother stopped and saw a paper sign that read (WANTED) and it hung on the wall. The women and the Mans pictures were on it witht he names Bonnie and Clide."

     I couldnt believe the story I just herd. My Great Grandma Emma had rode in a car with Bonnie and Clide how amaizing. She said they were good people. Kind and true.

     I hugged her good night and got up. "Amee?" She said I turned around and she said. "Over in the jewlery box open it and pul out the white scarf." I opened the jewlery box and there it was a scarf. With the letter B & C in pen written on the bottom of the scarf. The letters B and C meant. "Bonnie and Clide"

My great Grandma was very interesting to be around.