Nellie and the Cows

My father's mother was named Christina, but everyone called her Nellie, much to her dismay because Nellie was a cow's name. She was a posthumous child and subsequently collected eleven half-siblings. Her parents left her to tend their small grocery store and take care of ten children one summer when they took their youngest child to Germany to visit the old country. She was twelve, and she took her responsibility seriously. None of the children died and the store didn't go under. My grandmother read only one book in her life--a romance called The Sheik. She said it was so good that she never felt the need to read another.

Comments

[JWebb]

Wonderfully mooving story.

[gail]

I milked it for all it was worth.

[JWebb]

Udderly delightful.

[dorkafork]

Youze guys puns are going to make me have a cow.

[gail]

You're welcome to horn in any time.

[JWebb]

Gail would never steer you wrong.

[Julie]

I think it would behoove us all to drop this conversation.

[Beck]

Prime story. Really choice.

[Ana]

Nellie was outstanding in her field.

[Ana]

When you say posthumous child, you mean that her mother died in childbirth? Or she was concieved after the invention of hummus? Just hoping to clarify.