week 1 question 3

My grandmother is my role model. Flora Lee Bradford Scruggs has worked hard her whole life and she has never depended on another person to achieve her personal goals. My grandmother was born October 27, 1934 in Madison, Al and she is the eldest of four children. My grandmother did not go any further than grade school and during the winter she did not go to school, because she had to walk there. While she was a child she only received one pair of shoes a year, so she knows what it is like to have little to nothing. Until my mother was eleven my grandmother chopped cotton to make a living while she also cleaned houses.
The reason that my grandmother is my role model is, because she has beaten the odds. My grandmother worked as a lunchroom worker for 29 years at West Madison School. The home that she purchased stared out with only two rooms for her and her two children. Those rooms were the kitchen and a living room. While working in the lunchroom she managed to pay for her own home and make additions to the same home, by adding two bedrooms and a bathroom.
My grandmother is everything I want and hope to be. I pray that I have inherited some of her courage and strength to preserve in life. My grandmother is the best blessing that God could have bestowed upon me and my life would not be what it is without her. She is my gift from God.