Grandma/Gran Dpa’s Room

“GRANDPA’S ROOM
This room is the place of Şamil Ağa and Münevver Hanım. They raised exactly 9 children in this room.
My grandmother, Mrs. Münevver, is the mother of 8 girls and 1 boy. His life has been spent longing for a boy. When his first grandson, Canaan, was born, he hid that he was a man because he was afraid that he would be worth a look.
-Good luck, Münevver Lady, you have a grandson.
-No, no, whoever told you, it’s not a boy, it’s a girl, they said in the early days.
In Anatolia, it starts very early in the morning, and since it is necessary to work hard, it is also necessary to go to bed early in the evening. Mrs. Münevver likes to host, but she doesn’t like late guests at all. In his one-room house, the guest will go so that he can rest.
That’s why this story has been told in the village for many years. Supposedly, Mrs. Münevver sends her grandchildren to the guests when the guests don’t get up early, makes them sing this nursery rhyme:
-The embers have melted, it’s over, I promise, get up, you guys, we’ll go to bed.

For Women, hours, begins at 5 in the morning; entered the barn to be handed over to the care of animals and the herd will be prepared breakfast in the morning, and then will burn tandoori, and the bread bakes, move the water from the fountain and wash the laundry, wash the dishes, cook and bake, to be milking the sheep from the flock of descending from the mountains, to go to their family members who worked on the land for food, cleaned the house, from the evening to be taken to the stables of the animals, milking the cows, the milk will be drawn into the machine, to be made up of fat in churns in the evening from the fields, the food that men eat, tableware to collect the dishes.
This is a shift daily. If you don’t get one on time, the other job will come and get on top of it.
It’s a marathon.
My grandfather Şamil Ağa worked in the field with his son until the evening, when he came home tired, he wanted to eat and wanted tea.
My grandfather loved to drink tea, he was famous for drinking 20 cups of tea in one sitting. Moreover, he boasted of his ability to consume 20 cups of tea with a single cut of sugar.
Sometimes we used to ask grandma for a prank:
-Grandma, how old are you?
-I don’t know how old I am.
-Where are you from?
-Oh, this is your grandfather, he took it from me in the mobilization, brought it here, I don’t know where I’m from.
When we found out many years later that Erzurum was from the Khorasan district, my father took it to Khorasan and had it interviewed by his relatives.
Grandfather migrated to Yozgat in World War I. My grandfather saw my grandmother there, grabbed her and took her away when they came back after the war was over.
My grandmother was full of love, when she said “gurban olum”, the earth would groan in the sky to her loved ones.”