Look For the Good & Stick With Your Values
My grandma, Cherill Hyde Johnson Gilbert, is a classy lady. She has a strong testimony of Jesus Christ and has shown great faith and patience in the face of life’s many trials. She loves her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren very much. She is a talented pianist. At large family gatherings she commonly brings a case of Gossner’s flavored milk (i.e. rootbeer, strawberry, banana, cookies ‘n’ crème) which I entirely support. I’ve always referred to my Grandma as Grandma Johnson even through for the majority of my life her last name has actually been Gilbert. Grandpa Johnson passed away two years before I was born. When I was 4 years old, my grandma married a man named Barlow Gilbert. Together they lived in Preston, Idaho for 20 years before Barlow passed away in 2015. I never referred to Barlow as Grandpa, probably because I always heard my father call him ‘Barlow’ and not ‘Dad.’ Now that I’m writing this blog, however, I wish I would have called him ‘Grandpa,’ because my gr