We had an assignment on the Cochran family blog to write about what inspired the choices we made in naming our children so I thought I’d share what I wrote here as well. What I thought would be a short post, turned into a rather long one.
Our first boy was going to be David Hyrum [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I think my favorite treat as a child was homemade fruit leather. Both my mom and my Grandma O’Bryant made it. I remember them making it in strawberry and in raspberry. I loved the flavor and the texture of it and I never thought I got enough of it.
Posted on March 10th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I’ve wanted to go see my grandmother’s house since moving to Knoxville a few months ago, but I didn’t want to go alone so I waited until my sister Krista could come with me.
This is what the house used to look like and except for the fact that there were a lot more trees [...]
Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I know you didn’t love your name, but that’s because to you it was just a name. To me it is the feeling of love that I felt when I was with you.
It’s a reminder of a great woman who I loved and admired. Who showed strength in motherhood through sorrows and [...]
Posted on December 9th, 2009 by Kathleen
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There are some things that instantly remind me of a time or a place or a person. Today I was at the store and saw a box of ‘Danish Style Butter Cookies’ on sale and it instantly reminded me of my grandma O’Bryant. During Christmas time, she always had a tin full of these [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2009 by Kathleen
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I have no pictures for most of the next few rooms, unfortunately. Grandma’s bedroom was at the end of the hall. I remember thinking that she had the softest bed in the world. Her blankets were a light turquoise and she had a headboard with shelves. She probably had books up there, but I only [...]
Posted on June 8th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Last August my dear grandmother passed away, so on Memorial day I wanted to visit her grave. When she actually died, I was too emotional to talk about it with my kids so today was the first real experience I had to tell them about my grandmother and her death. Charlotte didn’t say much, but [...]
Posted on May 25th, 2009 by Kathleen
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**I could only find pictures of one of the rooms that I describe here, so I scattered pictures of that room throughout the descriptions of the others**
Through the kitchen was the opening to the hallway. I loved grandma’s hall. She kept giant bullion boards filled with pictures. She had an assortment of pictures old [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2009 by Kathleen
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The door that we used most to go in and out of Grandma’s house was probably the back sliding door. As you walked in the door you were instantly surrounded by the dark wood paneling that covered the walls. There was a stone wall to the left with a fireplace and a stone ledge [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Kathleen
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We usually visited my Grandparents in TN twice a year, at Christmas time and once in the summer. They lived on Yarnell road just off of Campbell Station road. I remember Campbell Station as a treacherous windy road with a cliff to one side and a forested hill on the other. The road was slightly [...]
Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Kathleen
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Today was the graveside service for my grandmother Ila Terry O’Bryant. She was a remarkable woman. From the time I was very young, I always remembered feeling an intense sense of love when I was around my grandmother. As I got older, I longed for and cherished the moments I had with her. I have [...]
Posted on August 23rd, 2008 by Kathleen
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This is an intensely personal subject for me, so this particular entry is not for the casual reader. I feel an almost therapeutic need to describe my emotions and the events surrounding my grandmother’s death. There are times when voiced words seem insufficient and bland, when only the written word can satisfy the need to [...]
Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Kathleen
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