Rambling About Memories Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Posted by Gina in Blogging, Disability, Favorite Things, Food, Life, Me Moments, Memories, Random Ramblings.Tags: breakfast, Food, Mom, oatmeal
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Cliff and I went to Sunday School yesterday. Cliff left after SS but I stayed for church. Then I stayed at my Mom’s and went to choir practice Sunday night. I didn’t get to sing in the Christmas cantata because of the kidney stone fiasco but hopefully I will get to sing in the Easter cantata. It is very pretty but longer than the Christmas one. I’m still not able to do things like I used to but maybe some of my stamina will come back. The doctors say it takes a year to get over major surgery–I believe it. Anyway, then I spent the night with Mom so I could take her to the eye doctor early Monday morning. She cooked me oats for breaskfast Monday morning. It brought back memories of my childhood when she always wanted me to eat something warm on cold days before I went to elementary school. I have never been a big fan of oatmeal (I wish I was because it lowers cholesterol–I make myself eat it now). When I was in elementary school, my arthritis really affected my appetite (I wish it did now-Ha) and I was skinny and a very picky eater. (I’m sure not now.) 
My Mother did a lot of special things to get me to eat. If she cooked oatmeal, she made toast with butter on it in the skillet. When she scrambled an egg for me, she crumbled up bacon in it and I would eat it better. She made homemade hot chocolate for me to drink. A child doesn’t forget stuff like that. And now when I go over there, since I don’t get to spend the night often, she makes special breakfasts for me a lot. When my brother went to 1/2 day kindergarten, he loved egg salad sandwiches so she would make him egg salad sandwiches at lunch a lot. He still loves them.
When she kept children in the nineties, she did this same thing for them. She cooked bacon, eggs, homemade biscuits and gravy for them almost every day. Most days she cooked lunch. Very seldom did she have sandwiches (that’s what she eats now for lunch). They remember some of this stuff even though they are teenagers. They were sweet children and are beautiful and handsome and smart teens now.
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