Loopy and Wonky

Tish say Loopy. And Anne says Wonky. Great words I've never heard before. Do you have a favorite fun word?

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

I heard on the radio that the top things that 'say' "Christmas" to the surveyed group are the combination of Lit Candles, Smell of Cinnamon, and Christmas Carols. I wonder why cinnamon and not vanilla or pine needles or any number of things, really. There were about 10 combinations of things.

I've got most of my cookie makings here and I'll begin cooking something later today or this evening. Skyler and I always make cut-out sugar cookies at Christmas time. In Christmas tree, star, Santa, bell, candy cane, and other fun shapes. And hubby likes me to make chocolate chip cookies at Christmas. Don't really know why those kind, but I oblige. He got some heath bar chips to try this time. I always use real butter and real vanilla and add pecan chips to them so they're the best they can be. I may package some up for neighbors. We'll see how it goes. Getting hungry already now for something chocolate-y.

Great Expectations

Have you ever expected a specific Christmas gift but ended up getting something entirely different? One friend said when she was 8, she just knew she was getting an easy bake oven but woke to find a training bra and underwear instead. Hard for an 8 year old to show grace when opening up that present. I don't recall having that happen to myself.

test post! My easybakecoven.net domain, actually the your-site.com is experiencing problems, so I can't get into it at all this morning. Frustrating.... and the background and picture aren't showing up here because they're on easybakecoven.net, too. So I'm going to upload them to my AOL ftp and republish the template. Then I'll continue visiting you. After I get back from running errands. A leetle bit of shopping and running by the high school to take Skyler something she forgot.

*Notice*

I'm probably going to change this site back to http://susanjayne.blogspot.com. Since I think my computer is trying to quit on me, and my renewal for my Easybakecoven.net site is up in few weeks, I may not keep the easybakecoven.net site if my pc goes out. I really don't know what I'm going to do yet. But I do know I can always count on Blogger, so I may use the susanjayne.blogspot.com address soon. If you can't access this site thru the usual easybakecoven.net/sj/, then you know where it'll be!

Little Tables, Big Memories
Did you ever sit at the "little table" for family dinners? Or the "children's table"?
A dozen or so grandkids would squeeze around a little homemade table at Big Mom's house. We'd lift up the plastic poinsettia tablecloth and try to carve our names in the many layers of aqua-painted surface with forks and fingernails. The "little table" was pushed against the bathroom door which was good if you had to go in a hurry and not so good if Uncle Billy had to go in a hurry.

But the first "little table" was at Cousin Ethel's in Johnson City, TN. It was a dark wooden fold-out card table in the family room and four children gathered around it waiting to be served. We'd peer into the kitchen where the adults sat at the "Big" table. A shiny aluminum and red laminated set. Mother would seat us girls and tuck napkins into our collars.

My teen cousin, Brenda, got to sit at the big table. But everything she did was cool. She played a new song for us on her record player, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", and I admired her jewelry box that's very opening made the ballerina inside twirl and dance while the music box played. Brenda wore lipstick, rolled her hair, and knew all the latest dances. She wore capri pants and mohair sweaters that featured her pointy boobs. When would I get pointy boobs? (bra-makers would later learn how to 'lift and separate')

Family tables steeped in love and tradition have a lot of history and now from the cook's vantage point, I find all those "little tables" have many big stories to tell.

snagged from Shirl's site. And tonight is Survivor. Who will get booted? Hmmmmm.


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poetry, writing or song. You love beauty and
creativity, and usually are highly intelligent.
Others view you as mysterious and dreamy, yet
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