BuzzFeed contributor Christa Torres pondered how her 89-year-old grandmother, Gladys, spends a typical day. To find out, the girl decided to spend 24 hours as a granny, and then shared her experience with readers.
Christa’s grandmother turned out to be a busy woman: she devotes a lot of time to church, teaches in a cooking class, is a member of a card players club and regularly visits a nursing home. Yes, and it is difficult not to be active, having 28 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. Her day starts at six in the morning, and among the usual morning activities, the main item is applying blush.
And with rosy cheeks, you can start breakfast. For Gladys, it’s cereal, coffee, and, unexpectedly, a glass of tomato juice. After breakfast, she goes to get dressed and only then finishes her makeup – puts on lipstick. As Krista clarified, Grandma believes that it is pointless to use lipstick before breakfast, because then it will be erased. Well, you can’t deny her logic.
Every day in the morning Gladys goes to church, and she drives a car better than those who are half her age, the journalist says. True, on Thursdays, instead of church, my grandmother visits a beauty salon to get her hair done, and this styling is enough for her for a whole week.
Christa’s grandmother is very fond of the TV show The View, which is on TV at ten o’clock in the morning. Therefore, after the hairdresser – a mandatory viewing of your favorite show, followed by crossword puzzles. Krista admits that, unlike her grandmother, she was not able to quickly cope with the puzzles.
Further more. At 11:45 Gladys visits a nursing home. Krista was lucky: on that Thursday, when she decided to live a grandmother’s life, her nephew, the youngest of all the grandchildren of an elderly lady, stopped by the pensioner. The guy is a gifted pianist, and from time to time he, along with his grandmother, goes to the old people and plays the piano as a volunteer.
When it was time for dinner, Krista recognized Granny’s diet: two slices of pizza for the main course, plus a sweet pizza for dessert. My granddaughter was delighted with this approach to nutrition.
However, the secret of granny’s longevity and vigor lies not only in the right choice of diet, but also in healthy sleep. After dinner, according to the regime, Gladys is supposed to take a good nap. Krista herself, usually unable to sleep during the day due to work, appreciated the beauty of this activity.
Well, after sleep – with renewed vigor for cooking. Gladys teaches in a cooking class for a reason, and Krista made sure of this personally by preparing a delicious apple pie with her granny. After cooking – visits, one of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren sometimes drops by for a visit.
However, this is only half of Granny’s daily schedule. Another regular concern of Gladys is maintaining order at the local cemetery. There, the journalist and the old woman lingered to pray at the graves of relatives. Krista writes that at that moment she felt an unprecedented peace and remembered that one must not stop appreciating every moment with loved ones.
After the cemetery – cooking dinner. The girl was not used to dealing with this issue: in her family, the responsibility lay with her husband. But this time, Krista was lucky, because next to her was Gladys, who cooks amazingly. Following an early (only six o’clock in the evening) dinner, the grandmother told her granddaughter that there are days in her life when she dine alone.
If you do the dishes after you eat, then you’re on Gladys’s team. A woman cleans up dirty dishes immediately after dinner, but she has a rule: wash cans and cake pans instead of throwing them away, because then they can be used again.
Then Christa’s grandmother usually sits on the porch, enjoying the evening and looking at the people passing by. This part of the day seemed to Krista especially unusual, because in her life there is not enough time to stop and just enjoy the moment. An evening with her grandmother reminded her that sometimes you need to take a break and just look around.
At nine o’clock in the evening, before going to bed, Krista had a chance to try out her grandmother’s secret to maintaining styling. The women’s life hack was not difficult: you just had to wrap your hair with toilet paper at night, put a shower cap on top – and nothing threatened your hair.
True, Krista’s method did not seem to help.
The toilet paper trick obviously didn’t work for me.
The girl wrote this after the next morning she discovered that her hair had suffered during the night. With this, Krista ended her story about the day with Gladys, but keeping the style is not the lesson that the granddaughter has learned over the past
