I am always pleased when I am invited to Mikaeli's school for  Grandparent Day. This year it was held on a Wednesday which is my day  off. That meant that I didn't have to get up extra early to take her for  breakfast. Instead I suggested that we would go for a steak sandwich  (her favourite) at noon. She topped that off with a huge slice of  chocolate cake and then said she wanted to ask a favour of me. "Can we  go to a cemetery now? You see I have never been to one and always wanted  to go there". I first I thought she was joking - but she wasn't!   My  mind immediately went back to small town Saskatchewan where, many years  ago, my mother would take my sister and me to care for the graves of  her parents. We would wash the tombstone, pull weeds and water the  rosebush that had been planted there years before. When my children were  young, mom would take them there to do the same tasks. She would answer  questions and tell stories about the family - stories...
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