Princess Fix IT

You got everything to keep you warm?
I don?t have time to be sick.
She?s like you, ya know, with the mouth and everything...
A real blonde, like us.
We have to laugh?
Or get off the pot?
I have a new joke for you?
Yetta and Sade?
I tell the priest my clean jokes?
There?s a branch for every bird?
Like you, giggly?
Don?t drink, don?t smoke, don?t date Italians*
Like I says?
A nice little Jewish boy marrying a Catholic girl?
It happens.
No time to rest.
You happy?

*Most of the women in the family have married Italian men.

My Grandma will be 83 years old this year. She came to this country a long time ago to escape communism and find a better way of life but continues to send care packages of bubble gum and clothes to our ever growing family in Slovakia. She loves America, so never speak ill of this great nation in her house. She talks to everyone and knows every person in the entire state of New Jersey. She can recite recipes for any possible dish known to man. My Grandpa, now 89 years old, and she live on their own, in the house they saved pennies for and find sanctuary in their large backyard garden. He calls out the bingo balls for the Knights of Columbus every Wednesday and she cooks truckloads of pierogies for church fund raisers. I love and admire my Grandma. I?ve been fortunate enough to have many strong women in my life to model myself after; Grandma is one of them.