Kids Taste Test

Kids Taste Test

Does anyone remember the last family reunion we had? It was a long time before this site was put together! We had such fun back then it's a wonder it's taken this long to get together again.

I remember back then Maggie's kids were all pretty young and constantly getting into mischief, including eating batter of the batch of stew cakes we were making!! Then they even graded us on our cooking based on that...

In our house we still have the youngest children or grandchildren sample foods first, because it's fun for them and they are nothing if not blunt in how they state their opinions.

Salt and Superstitions

Salt and Superstitions

A number of years ago when Gmom was still around there was a huge thunderstorm, and much of the neighborhood lost power. We all huddled together at the dinner table, but one of my younger siblings was scared of the long shadows that were cast by the candles we had. My grandmother calmed them down by making a ring of salt around them, and she said that no monsters or anything that could harm them could pass the line of salt.

From then on, whenever children were afraid of the dark or thought there were monsters under the bed, their parents would make a ring of salt, and they would sleep soundly after that.