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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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donaldtoo said:
I am being totally honest when I say, at least off the top of my head, I can’t think of anything my mother made/still makes that I didn’t/don’t like...if I think long enough I might, but, I honestly just can’t right now. Liver and onions, whatever she made, was always so good to me...!!!!! :hungry:
On a similar lunch sandwich note to yours, though, I do remember her apologizing for sending so many cheese sandwiches with us for lunch several years ago. These were not processed cheese sandwiches, btw. They were made from pretty thick slices of block cheese (she thought the processed stuff was garbage), with mayo, and I always loved them, but, she had no clue how much I loved them until not all that long ago...!!!!! :hungry:
Lesson learned...
Never forget to give your loved ones a hug, and let them know how much you love them...!!!!!!! :happy:
And, if it applies ;), their attempts at cooking, cooking/food, as well...after all, food is love...!!!!! 😍:D:hilarious::inlove:;)
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One of my favorite sandwiches as a kid was what my grandmother (mom’s mom) would make me when I visited. She bought these small delicious rolls and put a hard cheese with butter on them. The cheese was kind of like swiss but it had no holes. Those were soooo good. Sometimes the simplest things taste the best, don’t they?
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Rista1313 said:
I have a confession. I've never had Rouladen. In fact, I had to google it to find out what it was!
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Beef is sliced thin and then chopped onions and pickles are rolled inside. My mom would spread a german mustard inside before rolling it. Toothpicks to hold it together. Then it got seared and put in the oven with a wine sauce and baked until it was fork tender.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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donaldtoo said:
My folks were married in 1960, had me in 1962, my next youngest bro in 1964, my youngest bro in 1967, and my 12+-year-younger lil’ sis in 1975. So, it sounds like she’s about the same age as your 2 DDs.
But, both my folks also definitely did their homework at some point with only a kerosene lamp and my pop did attend a 1-room schoolhouse through the 8th grade.
They never tried to pull the “We walked uphill to school both ways...!!!”, as there was plenty of other stuff they could actually prove from both being raised on farms ‘til they graduated, HS...!!!!! :hilarious:
As you know, fortunately, they’re both still around, and their 11 grandchildren have heard the stories as well, many times...”the old days”, as you know, is all relative...!!! ;):)
Hope they’re around to tell our dear lil’ Emy...good times...!!!!!!! :happy:
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Yep, they have your sister surrounded. The first was in 1974 and the second was 1976. She was a bi-centennial baby and was presented to us with a red, white and blue banner pinned to her diaper.

When I was a kid my fondest memory was in the evenings both my sister and myself would sit on the floor in front of my dad while he talked about what life was like when he was growing up. He only got as far as 8th grade, but later in life, just before he retired he got his GED and even took a few college courses. My mom got as far as 11th grade, but never looked any further. I graduated from college in 1968 and was the very first, along with my sister, to graduate from college in our family, both sides. I had one book wormish cousin that graduated a year later, but to my knowledge that is it for my generation and in my family my two daughters are the only ones of their generation to go to and graduate from college. That still holds true. My youngest will receive her Masters in Economics this coming December. It remains to be seen how the next generation fares. The first one starts college this fall.

In my wife's family, neither her parents nor her siblings had a degree and none of their collective children (eight of them total) went past elementary/high school either. My wife on the other hand earned a Masters in Nursing, a Masters in Gerontology and was just an approved Dissertation away from a Doctorate before her illnesses and issues prevented her from finishing.
 
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MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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donaldtoo said:
Yep, preferred my brown paper sack lunches as well...and to add to my previous post, we also did get things like PB&J, tuna, etc., on a fairly regular basis, but, for some reason the cheese sandwiches stuck with mom as something with not enough nutrition in ‘em.
Heck, she coulda’ just sent me with a big chunk a’ that block a’ cheese every day, and Ida’ been just fine...!!!!! :hilarious:
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In grammar school we had to bring lunch because there was no cafeteria. We only bought milk each day.

In jurior high and beyond, there was a cafeteria, so I mostly bought lunch because it was cheap. And if it was made outside of our house, I just assumed (as a kid) that it had to be better?! :p
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Rista1313 said:
Only one of our cats gets wet food.... because he can't seem to keep the dry food down. We are pretty sure he has diabetes, and we feed him several small meals of wet food a day.
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Medical issues aside, often when cats and dogs get older, they can't handle the dry food (or have difficulty chewing it). Many older pets have wet food at that point, and that works well for them.
 

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