Someone important in my life.

The best sight to me is to stroll into the kitchen and see my short living great-grandma struggling to reach the vanilla on the top shelf. With an inconvenience like that she will always find a way to manoeuver around it and continue on making her exquisite homemade vanilla ice cream. It's a good thing that she only makes this ice cream for special occasions, or else every one in our family would be tubby like her. Tubby is not a bad quality for a grandma though, because grandmas are suppose to be cuddly and comfortable to lay with. In addition to making the world's best homemade ice cream, she is the most loving and warm hearted person I know, and that is why I love her and look up to her so much.

Mary Elizabeth Rickel is the most caring person anyone could ever meet. When my Grandma Cheryl, (my mom's mom) died of cancer, my mom was only 16. My Great Grandma Rickel took care of my mom like she was her own child. Then when my mom had me at 18, I was an "accident" and my mom wasn't ready to raise a kid. My Grandma Rickel took me in as her own to raise. I lived with my grandma for a while and was treated the best I've ever been treated by anyone. Despite having three of her own children she has cared for more than just her own. She has also cared for three of my cousins. My cousins Spencer and Shane, didn't always agree with their dad, and my grandma would be there for them whenever they needed her. Also my cousin Courtney lost her mom to cancer when she was 16, and ever since then my grandma has been there for her whenever she needed someone to talk to or to just be with her.

My Great Grandma Rickel also is the most loving person anyone could ever come in contact with, due to the fact that she puts everyone before herself. There have been times when she would go shopping with her grandkids and would want something for herself really bad but wouldn't buy it, because she would rather buy her grandkids something. I remember one time when she was on her way to Houston, Texas for her daughters chemotherapy and they stopped at a gas station to fill up with gas and use the restroom. There was a man in there asking people for money to feed his kids because he had lost his job. My grandma and my Aunt Donna felt awful for this man and then my grandma ended up giving the man fifty dollars. When she told me this story, she said that she did it because she thought God was giving her a sign to do it, even though she had her doubts of where they money would really be going. She would also try and help any one of the family members with anything they needed before she would do something for herself.

One more terrific quality that my Grandma Rickel has is that she is loyal and honest. If she said that she would come to something and what time she was going to be there, then she will do anything she can to arrive there on time. She also would give anyone who asked great honest advice on anything they wanted to talk to her about, and the best thing about talking to her about your problems is that she listens. No matter how boring this person is she will always pretend to be interested and no one would even be able to tell.

Out of all the people I have met in my lifetime, My Great Grandma Rickel is the person that I admire the most and will continue to be for some great time if not forever. There are many more qualities that makes her the outstanding person she is and I hope everyone has someone in their life like my grandma. I love her so much for being who she is!