http://www.womenrespond.com/home-boarding-school/ A woman talks about her British upbringing, her American present, and her eternal future from a Christian perspective Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:10:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.womenrespond.com/home-boarding-school/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Darcy Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:36:45 +0000 http://www.womenrespond.com/?p=28#comment-9 The family gatherings were great. Usually my two grandmas did most of the cooking. Us kids played until dinner time (lunch to you city-slickers) and we were starved when we were called in. When relatives visited from Michigan, California, or Missouri, we were treated like royalty with a cooked turkey or goose or duck, mashed potatoes and gravy, homemade bread and jam, veggies from the garden, and banana cream pie with real merange! There were lots of stories among the adults that made them laugh and laugh. After dinner, the women would clean up and the men would go have a smoke and maybe get in a nap, then the adults would gather around the table to play cards and drink beer. Us kids couldn't wait until we were old enough to join the card game! Us kids would get swooshed out of the house and we would play tag or hide-n-seek, or sit around and talk when we were teenagers. Birthdays and holidays were other times our families got together. I was fortunate to have 3 sets of grandparents, so visiting them was always fun. They all lived in my hometown. In the summer, after planting was done, we went fishing. I am so thankful to have those memories! So tell your kids to enjoy the fun with family - they will miss it as they grow older. Hopefully, they will continue the tradition! Darcy The family gatherings were great. Usually my two grandmas did most of the cooking. Us kids played until dinner time (lunch to you city-slickers) and we were starved when we were called in. When relatives visited from Michigan, California, or Missouri, we were treated like royalty with a cooked turkey or goose or duck, mashed potatoes and gravy, homemade bread and jam, veggies from the garden, and banana cream pie with real merange! There were lots of stories among the adults that made them laugh and laugh. After dinner, the women would clean up and the men would go have a smoke and maybe get in a nap, then the adults would gather around the table to play cards and drink beer. Us kids couldn’t wait until we were old enough to join the card game! Us kids would get swooshed out of the house and we would play tag or hide-n-seek, or sit around and talk when we were teenagers. Birthdays and holidays were other times our families got together. I was fortunate to have 3 sets of grandparents, so visiting them was always fun. They all lived in my hometown. In the summer, after planting was done, we went fishing. I am so thankful to have those memories! So tell your kids to enjoy the fun with family – they will miss it as they grow older. Hopefully, they will continue the tradition! Darcy

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