Happy Mother's Day Mom!!!
I look back fondly on my very early memories of you...the best being those in Grand Island.
I remember putting out a sheet or blanket on the back lawn, having a picnic lunch and then reading some books...you would often doze off in the sun!!! When we didn't do this outside, we would eat lunch inside and then climb up on your bed to read. When you fell asleep, RaeAnna and I would get the combs and brushes and do your hair as you slept...we loved your hair!!!
I remember planting a small garden in the back too and we each (the girls) had our own little flower bed with our choice of seeds...I think mine was Marigolds and Rebecca's was Morning Glory...i don't remember the others.
I don't know if it was a one time thing, but I remember you making Fruit leather! You whipped up the recipe and then poured it in cookie trays and left it outside on the back porch in the sun to dry....I thought that was the neatest thing!
I also thought it was neat that you could sew all our clothes! I loved wearing matching dresses and pajamas with my sisters...often I couldn't wait to get the hand-me-down from RaeLyn that you had made! I think we were in some fashion shows too wearing the clothes you had made.
I remember you singing all the time or playing the piano. You always played "Spinning Song" and one other that I don't remember the title....also all the Rogers and Hammerstein songs. And of course, there were the trips to "My Fair Lady" rehersals! What fun that was to see you practice and then later on stage!
I remember you making bread too....that huge dough ball that you would kneed! I thought that was an amazing feat to be able to handle all that dough at once! And I remember grinding wheat with you too....I loved watching the wheat kernals go down that hole in the top and then opening the drawer at the bottom with all that fresh, warm flour in it....you would always try to keep our hands out of that!
In all these memories, I felt your love and felt secure in knowing that all these things you did, in some way, for me. I now have these wonderful memories as examples of how a loving, dedicated Mother is to be.....always there for my children in whatever creative way possible.
I love you MOM!!! Happy Mothers Day to you!!!
Love, Renaye
I look back fondly on my very early memories of you...the best being those in Grand Island.
I remember putting out a sheet or blanket on the back lawn, having a picnic lunch and then reading some books...you would often doze off in the sun!!! When we didn't do this outside, we would eat lunch inside and then climb up on your bed to read. When you fell asleep, RaeAnna and I would get the combs and brushes and do your hair as you slept...we loved your hair!!!
I remember planting a small garden in the back too and we each (the girls) had our own little flower bed with our choice of seeds...I think mine was Marigolds and Rebecca's was Morning Glory...i don't remember the others.
I don't know if it was a one time thing, but I remember you making Fruit leather! You whipped up the recipe and then poured it in cookie trays and left it outside on the back porch in the sun to dry....I thought that was the neatest thing!
I also thought it was neat that you could sew all our clothes! I loved wearing matching dresses and pajamas with my sisters...often I couldn't wait to get the hand-me-down from RaeLyn that you had made! I think we were in some fashion shows too wearing the clothes you had made.
I remember you singing all the time or playing the piano. You always played "Spinning Song" and one other that I don't remember the title....also all the Rogers and Hammerstein songs. And of course, there were the trips to "My Fair Lady" rehersals! What fun that was to see you practice and then later on stage!
I remember you making bread too....that huge dough ball that you would kneed! I thought that was an amazing feat to be able to handle all that dough at once! And I remember grinding wheat with you too....I loved watching the wheat kernals go down that hole in the top and then opening the drawer at the bottom with all that fresh, warm flour in it....you would always try to keep our hands out of that!
In all these memories, I felt your love and felt secure in knowing that all these things you did, in some way, for me. I now have these wonderful memories as examples of how a loving, dedicated Mother is to be.....always there for my children in whatever creative way possible.
I love you MOM!!! Happy Mothers Day to you!!!
Love, Renaye
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