I can't quite keep track of which of these should be present tense and which should be past.

• For years she was the only one who made me wash my hands after using the bathroom and before eating a meal.
• After Halloween she always had a lot of extra candy because no one came by her house, but she only invited people to have a piece or two at a time.
• She ate an apple with nearly every meal. She tried to get me to eat the apple slices too, but I didn't want to eat the peel.
• She claims that she had to stop me from eating flour when I was a very young child.
• One year recently she asked me to help her clean up her yard in the spring, and I spent five afternoons raking sticks out of her lawn.
• She took me on a summer trip to Texas, where the Young Eagles permitted me to fly an airplane.
• Whenever she went swimming, she wore a bathing cap.
• A few summers she came on vacation with my family and she enjoyed camping and houses on the beach of the Outer Banks just as much as my parents did.
• She brought me a postcard of grubs meant for eating when she went to New Zealand.
• Every Christmas she came over to my family's house and opened gifts and ate breakfast and dinner with us.
• She always called the evening meal supper.
• Thanksgiving has always been a big family gathering with entirely homemade food (except for the cranberry gelatin) that she and my mother and I make.
• She makes the best homemade macaroni and cheese. It's the only kind I like eating.
• Most winters she bakes cookies, but some winters I don't like any of the cookies she makes.
• She kept a drawing I made when I was three years old on the wall by her door until a few years ago.
• She needs a lot of help with her Apple computer, but it's usually different from the help my mother needs.
• The flat roof of her house needs the drains cleaned nearly every time it rains and the water, algae, and leaves need to be swept off almost that often.