Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Winter times

It's great seeing all the snow we are having; like when I was a kid and winter was winter. Living in Kansas we had plenty of snow and there was a great sledding hill on the street behind ours. There would usually be a nice fire on the park at the intersection of the avenues. My brothers had sleds and would take me down with them. We had so much fun and would go home to have hot cocoa. That was when Mom made it with milk, sugar and powdered cocoa, delicious!

One year we walked to our grade school, my youngest brother and I and made an American flag in the snow on the play ground. We were so proud of ourselves. I only wish we had an arial picture of it.

My drive to work is pretty slow with all the country roads I travel. I just take my time and try to be very careful.

I was just remembering in the winter my mom would make hot cereal and on Valentine's day she would wake us up for school and we would have pink hot rice for breakfast. In March for St. Patrick's day she may make green pancakes. It was fun wondering what she would do for those holidays. She was pretty creative to make times seem nicer for us.

I tried to do those things for my kids but I don't think they relished it like we did. Times are different and our kids would have items and goodies on a regular basis that would have seemed like a luxury to us. We never would go out to eat unless we were traveling and not even then sometimes. Fast food was not the norm when we were growing up. I can remember my first hamburger. We were traveling to visit our aunt and on the way we stopped at a 'Sandy's' for a burger and fries. I thought they were delicious. 15 cents for a burger but it was fun!

My sisters worked at a drive-in when they were in high school. Sometimes they would bring home a milk shake for me but I was usually asleep by the time they arrived home with it. So they 'had' to drink it.

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neat. I didn't know your mom did those things. Pink Rice? with sugar or milk or with just salt?
So, how much snow have you gotten?
we have had a lot of rainy days here. My head is not happy about it.
Sorry about not relishing those things.

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