🎄🎄🎄🎄Christmas Cap

The love of a  Grandmother

Grandmother opening her Christmas Presents with her great, great grand-daughter

My grandmother worked hard for a living.
She cleaned people's homes. 
Her home was clean, small, and filled with lots of love. 

She was handy with a needle and thread and she made most everything she owned or gave away.

My grandparents never owned a car, they walked everywhere. 
My grandmother had more love, and generosity than most people.

Christmas was a special time and my grandmother would work all year long to make presents for her grandchildren. 

She always had one of the prettiest Christmas tree which she decorated with bubbling lights, angel hair, ice cycles, strung popcorn, and tiny ornaments.

 Christmas Tree, great,great,granddaughter,& doll

My grandmother baked cakes that included items such as coconut, bananas, orange zest, apples, pecans, or walnuts. 

When she finished baking the cakes she would put the cakes in a cool place for us to enjoy on Christmas Day.

One Christmas all the granddaughters received a special cap. 
Inside the caps was a headband and dangling from the very tip of the cap was a tassel.

I do not remember the color of the cap.

It could have been red but it could have been blue, brown, or even green.
I knew how hard my grandmother had to work to buy the caps. The love she put into buying the caps that made them special. 

When I was in the first grade my dad would bring me to my grandmother's house so I could attend the city elementary school.
My cousin Judy was also in the first grade and we would walk to school together every day. (Judy lived with my grandmother)

We would eat breakfast, dress, and walk eight blocks to school.
We walked to school rain, sleet or snow. 
That special cap kept my head warm. 

I wore that cap religiously to school, but one fateful day I lost my special cap.

My cousin and I retraced our steps the next day after school to look for that special cap.
Sometime we would take a different route to school. 

On the porch of this white-framed house hung a cap that looked just like the one I had lost. 

 Judy 

We knocked on the door and a woman answered the door. 

I said, " Who does that cap belong to?"
I said that the cap looks like the one I lost.

The woman replied it belongs to my daughter.
I have just washed it and hung it up to dry on the front porch.

I felt sad for the loss of my special cap.
 What would I tell my grandmother when she saw I was not wearing my special cap?

That day when I got home I told my grandmother that I had lost my special cap.

 She said the Lord always provides us with the things we need.

I never got another cap
The love that my grandmother showed me, made me feel warm inside.

First Grade