Happy Birthday, Mom
Mom's birthday would have been today, 06/21/2011. She would have been 89 years old. I'm just missing her so badly today. Mom had a sweet tooth and would have loved a piece of cake and some ice cream. She would have especially enjoyed the company, and I can't do that for her anymore. Mom baked a cake or cookies every week while we were growing up. Her pies were so tasty, and I've never been able to make one as good. By the time I wanted to ask her how to make decent crust, she couldn't remember. When I was a teenager, I didn't want to be in the kitchen, and now I wish I knew how to make a good vegetable soup or potato leek soup the way Mom did. She also knew how to cook pig's feet and sauerkraut, and I have to laugh when I think about how my kids would have turned their noses up at that! After church on Sundays, Mom would make fried chicken, the very best I have ever had. She went all out on holidays, turkey with all the trimmings, the good china. We always ate dinner together, healthy food with portion sizes that were adequate. Nothing was super sized and neither were we. What a difference from the world we live in now. Yeah, I miss my mom and all that she could have taught me had I just asked.