Thanks Patti, We had a great Thanksgiving and I hope that you did also. It's nice that the family is all close geographically again. We have always spent time in the kitchen together, but our sons would of course prefer making cookies and cakes to helping with the meals. And the most fun was making the cookies during the holidays. We made so many and would give to famiy and friends. That was what was fun when they were little. They loved making the deliveries to our neighbors and saying that they helped make them. Then as they got older, they'd put together what they wanted to eat since they had a decent sense of the kitchen. It worked out great cause I closed down my share of the kitchen after dinner, and after that they were on their own. They had friends at the house all the time and would get encouraged to cook for them. Dan, our youngest, actually had a couple of friends who would shop for groceries and come to our house for Dan to barbeque or cook for them. Dan would eat well and all he had to do was cook. After I got TM I wasn't doing much with the holiday baking, and one year I actually had my hubby buy the fixings and didn't get anything done with them. Well, it was 2 days before Christmas and my son came by and noticed that there weren't any cookies or any cookie dough in the fridge. He took the stuff home and did the baking there and then shared the cookies. There would not be a Christmas without cookies. The next Christmas he and family bought me a Kitchenaid mixer to make it easier for me to bake. Now, every year they both bug me about how I'm doing with my baking and what they need to do to help or do they need to take over. It just isn't the holidays for me though until I do some baking, plus I always try to bake a bit with the grandsons too. The memories are good for all of us. And the skills they learn carry them through their lives. They are all good eaters since they have helped with the prep.
Hugs, Barbara A in Auburn CA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: Barbara Alma <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 5:07 am Subject: Re: [TMIC] Re: [TMIC - Happy Thanksgiving You're making some great memories with your grandsons Barbara. I bet you're not ust lucky your sons like to cook. You likely spent lots of time with them in he kitchen too. Boys need as much kitchen attention as do girls. We randparents are a blessed bunch! The memory making events are shaping their ives. appy Thanksgiving! Patti - Michigan --- Barbara Alma <[email protected]> wrote: Just checking in to say Happy Thanksgiving to all. It was nice to hear that ude is doing well and see all of the names pop-up checking in as well. We've had the 3 grandsons here the past few days, and they range from 12, 7 nd 3 years old. I've played so many card games, puzzles and read stories, atched videos, etc that I am ready for the house to settle down in a little bit or a few hours before it all starts up again around 1pm tomorrow. We even made omemade dinner rolls for tomorrow's dinner. It was fun to do, but a bit of a hore to get all involved. Things like that just take more out of me than they sed to. I've got a spinach casserole to make in a couple of hours, then not much more o do for our turkey dinner. I'm so thankful that both of our sons love to cook nd pitch in! Enjoy all and be well. Hugs, Barbara A in Auburn CA
