{"id":3141,"date":"2011-09-01T00:23:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T07:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2014-07-05T14:07:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T21:07:22","slug":"grandmas-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/grandmas-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandma’s House"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the house in which I grew up. It was my grandparents house, but it was my Grandmother who made it a home.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1948, my Grandmother packed up her children, and left her beautiful home in Michigan, to join her husband in Alaska where he had moved his dental practice.<\/p>\n

\"Trip_to_Alaska\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

She moved from this:<\/p>\n

\"Michigan_House.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To a 32′ by 32′ log cabin
\n\"McKinley<\/a><\/p>\n

Her youngest child was 7 months old.<\/p>\n

This wasn’t just a house in Alaska. This was a house in an area that was, at the time, the middle of nowhere, Alaska. My grandfather commuted to work in Anchorage by airplane.<\/p>\n

Of course, they needed to embiggen the house a bit to\u00a0accommodate\u00a0all those kids<\/p>\n

\"adding<\/a><\/p>\n

And Grandma made sure their newly enlarged home was lovely. Just because they were in the middle of nowhere, Alaska, didn’t mean they were going to live like country bumpkins. Grandma had standards.<\/p>\n

This was dinner.<\/p>\n

\"family<\/a><\/p>\n

And after dinner<\/p>\n

\"livingroom<\/a><\/p>\n

Notice Grandpa’s commuter plane out the left window…<\/p>\n

Sure they had chores, a fully operational farm, in fact. But those boys mucked out the pig pen in jeans that were ironed.<\/p>\n

Years later I came to live with Grandma and Grandpa, on my own at first so I could attend the local kindergarten, my parents and brothers joined us later. This is the house that comes to mind when I think of my childhood. I think of the wind that blew right through those walls bringing with them the glacial silt from not one, but two nearby glaciers. We dusted every single day. And every week we baked bread, with wheat we ground ourselves in a heavy, loud, wood and metal flour making contraption. Then when the loaves came out of the oven, she’d cut me a thick slice, still steaming, slather it with homemade butter from our cow, and then sprinkle a little brown sugar on top. Heaven.<\/p>\n

I think of myself as being busy now, but truly, Grandma got some work done. <\/p>\n

Grandma lived to be 99 years old, and she was beautifully pulled together every time I saw her. <\/p>\n

Oh, my, I’m glad Grandma can’t see my home right now. I’ve fallen a bit short of her standards. <\/p>\n

I’ve written a few more posts about my Grandma, and at her request, published a few of her own memories as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Mama\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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In 1948, my Grandmother packed up her children, and left her beautiful home in Michigan, to join her husband in Alaska where he had moved his dental practice.   She moved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[768,761,694],"tags":[549,39,474,28,296,467],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-living-well","category-family-living-well","category-living-well","tag-adventuring","tag-alaska","tag-doris-mckinley","tag-extended-family","tag-family-history","tag-mckinley","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"768":{"name":"Adventure","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/life-skills\/adventure-living-well\/"},"761":{"name":"Family","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/living-well\/family-living-well\/"},"694":{"name":"Living Well","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/living-well\/"}},"tags_names":{"549":{"name":"adventuring","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/adventuring\/"},"39":{"name":"Alaska","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/alaska\/"},"474":{"name":"Doris McKinley","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/doris-mckinley\/"},"28":{"name":"Extended Family","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/extended-family\/"},"296":{"name":"family history","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/family-history\/"},"467":{"name":"McKinley","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/mckinley\/"}},"comments_number":0,"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fDeG-OF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":261,"url":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/meanwhile-back-at-the-farm\/","url_meta":{"origin":3141,"position":0},"title":"Meanwhile, Back at the McKinley Farm…","author":"Judy Schwartz Haley","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"History of the McKinley Farm in Palmer, Alaska, home of Lee (Doc) McKinley and his family.","rel":"","context":"In "Family"","block_context":{"text":"Family","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/living-well\/family-living-well\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Lee (Doc) McKinley and Family at the farm","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/524117466_9e8d79275f_o.jpg?fit=589%2C388&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/524117466_9e8d79275f_o.jpg?fit=589%2C388&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/524117466_9e8d79275f_o.jpg?fit=589%2C388&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":326,"url":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/re-creation-of-doc-mckinleys-dental-office\/","url_meta":{"origin":3141,"position":1},"title":"Re-creation of Doc McKinley’s Dental Office","author":"Judy Schwartz Haley","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week my friend Sharon drove out to the Dorothy Page Museum in Wasilla, Alaska and sent me these pictures. 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