tkx Bridge for the thought and enjoy your family we love you too.
May my Angels always and forver whatch over youv and and walk by your side.
I would like to share something with you about family
Passing it down
I am now, the last of the old adults,and have 3 girls.(21, 35, and 37).
Just me and my 7 yr. old, twin,Taco Bell dog on TV, named Sweet Pea, here
now. I have my mom's and my grandma's, very old cook books, plus what
knowledge I have studied and gathered, for I now cook recipes from 9
different countries.
In a real old, small metal recipe box, that I remember seeing, as a very
small, young child, I found an old piece, of folded up brown paper,warped in
plastic. It was dated 1906,and it was in my grandma's handwriting. It was
the recipe for her own wedding cake, that she had made herself.
I also have her recipe for her home made relish, that I called Slop,as a
kid. LOL This is the best testing relish, you will ever put into your mouth,
on a pork, or beef roast sandwich, hot dog, or hamburger. You can just
throw all of the rest of the things you use on them away. lol It is really,
just that good.
I decided to try to make it one day, and asked my mom, to see if she
could still find the recipe for it.. I got a copy, and off I went to a
farmers market for all the things I needed and to a spice store for the
spice I needed. lol After getting all of this stuff, I realized,that I was
going to need the largest, porcelain roaster,with lid, that I could find.
Then,it was back to mom's apt.to put it together. She was no longer able to
help, but I figure,at least with her there to visit with, just maybe I
wouldn't screw this up. lol It took 4 days, just to dice it up by hand. I
told mom, that I thought that I would never get it done. She just laugh and
said, that her and grandma sat in did it all the time. She said, that people
today are to busy to stop and see that the simple things in life, and just
talking to someone are fun things to do too.
Anyway, it took all day in a 3 1/2"dpx18"lg.x13"wd. roasting pan, that
covered 2 burners, and was filled to the brim, to cook slowly, stirring
occasionally, for it to be done. The rest of the evening was spent canning
19 pts. of relish. lol I gave mom a taste to see if I did it right and
she said ,yep, that's it, and we both laughed. I kept 4, mom took 4, and
she gave all of the rest of it away, to the her friends in the complex, just
as grandma had gone, when mom was a girl, and you still took the time to
know your next door neighbor, and called them a friend.
You know what was the bast thing about making those 19 pts. of relishwas
? I stopped the clock in my busy schedule and spent 5, wonderful days,
taking the time to,just talk to my mom, while she was still here. about the
little things in life, that we have forgotten. We talked about, when she was
a girl and things she that liked, did, and wanted to do.
I never knew that mom wanted to be a nurse. Guess that's why she always
took care of her mom, and then her sisters, and was with them when they
passed. She retired as a professional seamstress. We talked about the good
times we had as I was growing up and the things that we had done together,
and we talked about the old ways. My mom passed away the next year at 83.
Don't wait until it is to late, for you to talk and listen to the old
ones, while they are still with you. It's amazing what you just might learn
form them. Stop the clock and your life for awhile and find out how much fun
it can be. I will be 64 this Thursday,(June 30th). I told my daughters
that, like mom ,I will not be here forever,and then it will do no good to
say, I wish, I had stopped my clock and would have taken the time. But
they are all, still to busy, so it is their loss, not mind, If I do not hand
down, what I have learned over the years, to them. For when I die it all
dies with me. I have my own losses. I have old pictures of relation,
cousins I guess. I have never seen these pictures before. I found them and
an old box of mom's after she was gone. My mom was the last to know who they
were, but I can no longer ask her, so how they are just pictures.
Do it today, for tomorrow may not come for them, and then your clock will
stop, like mine, and it will be to late for you also.