Edelweiss Easter

It's Easter today. It was one of your Lola's favorite holidays.

I miss your Grandpa Brand and Lola Lou on days like this. I remember when I was little that they would hide candied eggs around the house for me so I could have my own little egg hunt. On one particular Easter, I think I was around six, our dog Zsa Zsa smelled out the eggs and started eating them, foil and all. Your Lola was so angry! Grandpa Brand and I laughed until we cried.

I miss your Grandpa Brand especially, today, and while watching TV this morning discovered that one of our favorite family movies was airing: The Sound of Music. We would watch it together, annually. Grandpa Brand would sing "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria" except put in "Theresa" while I danced around the room, and then, later in the film, he would put me in his lap and sing me this song, from another part of the movie.

Grandpa Brand had a lovely tenor voice. I loved it when he sang to me.