I was so sad...
#121
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Alaska
Posts: 333
Our DGD's live in Illinois, 1 1/2 & 4 1/2...we live in Alaska. Needless to say we don't see them enough..BUT -- When we visit the 4 1/2 yo and I have made chocolate chip cookies and M&M cookies for the last 2 years. It has been great. She remembers us making the cookies and we can talk about it on the phone or Skype and remember how much fun we had. A great way to keep in touch. The first time she cracked an egg it ended up on the floor..oh, well
#123
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Indiana
Posts: 450
I am just a little older than you are. My Mom was a fantastic seamstress and made all of my clothes. Noone cared where anyone's clothes came from as long as they had clothes. This is probably because I lived in a rural farming area, and most people were just trying to survive. When I was in high school I was really excited to buy my first dress from a store. Boy, was I disappointed!!! That dress was not as nice and did not fit as well as the dresses that My Dear Mom made. My Mom passed away 10 years ago, and I find it almost impossible to get clothes that fit. One of the many things I miss about my Mom. She was the best person I have ever known.
When mom remarried we moved to a different school (just 15 miles apart). It was a different world. When I was in the seventh grade another girl recognized the pattern of the dress I wore and asked if my mom made it. I said that she had not but admitted finally that I had and begged her not to tell anyone. This girl couldn't understand why I wouldn't want others to know. I had learned that lesson well already. I sew for my pleasure and because what I make fits me better but I still get nervous if someone asks if I made it.
Everyone's stories about baking reminds me my DIL went home with a college roommate. No one in her family had ever had home made cookies. They always got them from a bakery. At the wedding reception the room mate's mom said to me, "Jane says you made all the dresses and cooked the rehearsal dinner. Where did you learn to do that? I can't even sew on a button or boil water." How do these people live????
#124
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Southeast PA, near Reading
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Take out, for one. And most of the clothes you buy these days aren't worth the time it would take to repair them. Not a day goes by that I am not grateful that my mother and grandmother took the time to encourage my interest in and help me learn to sew and cook.
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