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Everything you speak of here is like my own childhood. Only one exception, my mother would roll the strips of cinnamon & sugar pie crust into miniature cinnamon roll shape. Everyone adored them. They were always gone way too soon.
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TAPS.
on December 13, 2019 at 7:55 PM
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Not really dear FSI; women and men worked themselves to death and so often talent that promised in one's youth was never realized because of being trapped in a life of drudgery. Now my big sister loved her home and baking Gourmet meals for her family. keeping house and yard tidy and sewing and making lace in her spare time. For me it has always been the most difficult part of life. Not the garden for that is creative....always the rebel, I refuse to grow vegetables.
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Kabu
on December 13, 2019 at 4:21 PM
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At 58 she enrolled in class, passed her GED (high school equivalency) and also signed up for an oil painting class. Over the next 20 years she produced over 200 paintings, portraits, still lifes of flowers so real you could almost smell them, landscapes, etc. For several years she taught a painting class at a senior center. Amazing what gets done after the kids are no longer underfoot... 
posted by
Pat_B
on December 13, 2019 at 10:58 AM
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Your Mother was an amazing woman in a different time she would probably have been quite successful in the things that were not available then.
posted by
C_C_T
on December 13, 2019 at 10:32 AM
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I love pie, and scalloped potatoes are still a family tradition, especially where Christmas dinner is concerned.
posted by
Sherri_G
on December 13, 2019 at 7:49 AM
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Those really were the days...
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on December 13, 2019 at 6:29 AM
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