Never Too Late To Have a Happy Childhood

Is this not cute?  My daughter sent it to me in an email.  She is always sending me funny stuff.

So sorry I have not acknowledged the awards my sweet blogging buddies have given me---I feel so terrible about it!!  I have been sick and have fallen behind.  Last week I had a post almost ready to go, passing the Friendship Award to some of you, another Noblesse Oblige Award and a Kreative Blogger Award, when my screen went totally blank and lost everything I had written, all the links in the post to other blogs, etc. were just gone!  I felt like putting down my head and crying, but instead I just turned off the computer and went into the kitchen, tried to busy myself so I wouldn't think of it too much.  I so appreciate the awards I have been given and value the friendship of each of you very much.  Well, so much for that.  Now on to other things!

I made cupcakes and homemade yeast rolls today.  I got all goofy and tinted the frosting pink and scattered colored sprinkles on top.  They were pretty and so yummy.  I have the easiest and best cake recipe from an old Good Housekeeping cookbook.  I use it for cupcakes,  pineapple upside cake, marble cake and every other thing I can think of.

I have always loved to cook and made everything from scratch back in the day.  I still do a lot, though I don't cook as much as I once did.  When my kids were all home I baked every single day and always had a snack ready for them when they hit the door after school.  I did the same for my grandchildren when they were little.  We had great picnics under a big oak tree in our yard.  I loved those times as much or even more than the children.  

I can remember having a shirt that said in bold letters across the front "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."  Debye always told me, "Mama, you can't be in your second childhood, Honey, you never got out of your first!"  When my children were all home was the happiest time of my life.   Be sweet.

Cooking Freebies

Two more recipes already on cards and yours for downloading.  If you use cardstock in your printer, you just have to cut them out and add to your recipe box.  I have recipes scattered everywhere.  If I said I was going to organize them and get them all in one place, my nose would immediately begin to grow!  I have so many cookbooks that a lot of them are in storage tubs in the garage.  I can tell you about each and every one though, where I got it, how long I've had it and what kind of recipes are in it!  I know if one is missing too.  My daughters can attest to that! I really don't understand my fascination with cookbooks as I usually don't bother to measure ingredients.  I just add a pinch or two of this and a handful of that and most usually it is edible.  I have come a long way from the young bride with a flame being lit under her biscuit by a husband who could not so much as take a bite out of the biscuit!  I swear to you, in those days I have cooked food that our dog refused to eat!!   I can sit with a cookbook and read it the way other people read novels.  If I have to wait very long anywhere, I am receiving what I have come to call THE LOOK.  It isn't everyone who can pull a cookbook out of her purse while sitting in the waiting room at a doctor's office.  I recently gave my oldest granddaughter a cookbook written in 1887.  I feel every young girl should know how to pluck a chicken and the proper way to render fat when a hog is killed.

Now on to the freebies!  Download link for Biscuits Recipe Card is here 

Link for Peanut Butter Cups is here.                                               Be sweet!