2025: Week 2 Favourite photograph #52Ancestorsin52Weeks

This topic is one I have posted about before - a photograph of my mum, dad and me and also one of my dad with his mum . This year I'm choosing to post a slightly more up to date one - a photo of a professional photo taken of my own mum with my two children, shortly after the birth of my daughter.

The photo itself hangs in my living room. My mum would have been 80 years old at the time. Although she had three other grandchildren by my sister, they lived down in England and she only saw them a couple of times a year, whereas she saw my children growing up from being babies, until she herself died some eight years later. In those eight years she had with them, she was a lovely gran to them. She would get down to their level on the floor with them and play whatever they wanted. She delighted in their company and even had them to stay overnight with her. They, in turn, gave her last years, which were healthy, real purpose. She just loved being 'Gran'.

When she was unconscious and dying in hospital years later, both my children visited her one evening. Shortly after they left, she died. I firmly believe she held on to 'see' them one last time.

Helen Young Anderson (1915-2003)

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