Easter and making a new friend? I hope!!

Our family met up at Aunt Becky's and Uncle Rick's for Easter dinner. I was finally able to meet my grandma's neighbor, Jill.

Grandma had told me about Jill and how she was abused as a child. She was abused in EVERY sense of the word. I won't go into details, but let's just say it has really affected her adult life.

Jill is a very timid middle aged woman who lives alone in the next apartment, and doesn't trust anyone. She really helps keep an eye out on grandma.

She's so afraid of people, that I was told that whenever my dad (or anyone for that matter) would come over, if she was outside, she'd hurry in, and grandma could hear her locking the doors. That was until the day my dad went over, and Jill was trying to fix her bike. His back and knees were killing him, and she could tell he was in pain, but that didn't stop my dad from getting on the ground and fixing her bike for her. She was so amazed, that she and my dad have become friends.

I was also told that she NEVER misses church. She arrives late, sits in the back, and leaves before it's over. She loves to knit, and takes brown grocery bags FULL of things she's knitted, take it to church, and writes FREE on the bag. She even went so far as to knit my mom a pair of booties when she was in the hospital.

So, when I was finally introduced to her, I was first surprised to see that she was willing to meet my WHOLE family. Then we started talking, and we became friends, especially since I found out that she used to work at the same factory I do.

She's one of these people that had such a horrible life, that you can't help but feel like you want to do something nice for her. I'm just hoping that now, she'll be more comfortable speaking to us when we come over to visit grandma.