Sneakers1957

  Am I creative or what?   I'm pretty happy with it. I'm thinking of my Mom as I'm eating this.  Mom liked to eat. Sometimes she over ate but it didn't take much. At Furr's Cafeteria, where it was all you can eat, she always had 2 trays but she didn't eat everything. She saw something that she wanted to taste & got it but sometimes it was only a bite or 2.  And her lunch table always had about 10 bowls but they were small ones.  A half a cup of this, a bit of that.  She liked variety.  See, she'd had to take over cooking when her mom died when she was 16, for her dad & brothers. Then she married my dad at 17 & had 2 babies by the time she was 21 and me 10 years later.  Then another 10 years later, she had my nephew, after my sister passed away. So she had to cook all the time. And she always tried to please everyone & she did a great job. But she loved things like fried chicken & liver & onions (yuck) which my dad woul...