This was probably the first salad I ate that was pre dressed and had spinach in it. It was so delicious that it has become my go to salad to impress at a gathering.

When my kids were little, we loved buying Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies from the local grocery store bakery. When I moved to the East Coast I discovered that I had to bake them myself. I started taking them to afterschool Art Club and the kids love them.

As a Mom of young kids, I was always looking for ways to stretch our budget. We often made home made pizza. our favorite way to measure how much sauce we needed for each pizza was to make a smiley face on top of the pizza dough. It’s always just the right amount of sauce.

My Grandfather was a missionary in 1918 in Austin, Texas. One hot day, his companion and he came home for lunch and my grandpa took a bath to cool down. His companion walked in on him, and found him in the bath tub with his tie still tied around his neck. His companion said, “Elder, what are you doing?” My grandfather replied: “I tied this tie right once today and I’m not going to tie it twice.”

During the Depression, by Dad’s Grandpa farmed hay. Times were hard. Crops failed. Machinery broke. One day, something happened that broke the hard working man. He said, “If there is a God in Heaven, may he strike me down.” A few days later on a clear blue day, he was working in the field when along came a little cloud and struck him with a lightning bolt. He lived to tell the tale and after he healed up, he put back on the clothes he wore when he was struck to hand down to his children’s children’s children…me