"PHOTO STORIES"

 

    I found a little treasure this evening as I worked on consolidating and organizing my photos.   This is a task I have been working on for several years apparently, at least long enough for me to have forgotten that I organized a file for 'Photo Stories'. 

   I smiled when I opened it and decided I am ready to write a 'Photo Story' about a day in 2007, if the camera date stamp was correct, when I made a chocolate cake from scratch while the grand kids were there.
    I see from the photos that Wayne was there as well, which makes sense because I usually made chocolate cake for him whenever I felt I had treated him badly.  Throughout our marriage, he often came home to that and spaghetti if we had argued in the morning.    It was always the "make up treat'  instead of that other thing....well, maybe not instead of.

   Anyway, moving right along...

 

As Mom had done with us, and I with my children, I gave the grand babies the batter bowl and spatula.  Messy tradition, but Ohhh, how wonderful.  

Ah, but where are the beaters?  I am guessing Wayne and I have them!

 

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I remember getting such a kick out of those funny little boys and ran to get the camera, but...
and you will have to trust me on this one...
at one point Simey, the youngest, had his head IN the bowl as Percy is about to do.

 I missed that shot.



   I saw the chocolate in his little curls and wondered why everything these boys did ended up with them in the bath tub.

   Oh, but how sweet he smelled.
  
   I guess Percy thought he did too, because just about when I was putting the camera down, Wayne said, "You gotta see this Char!,  maybe we won't need the tub after all!"

   Who knows how these boys will react when they see this as teens. 

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I am kind of afraid they will say, "hey, that's nothing Nana, Simey, tell her about the time..."

 

                                                     And I shall run from the room.

   

     Now, as is my policy, I have committed to writing something that will refresh and renew us as we go through our days.  I am working hard to come up with a 'Renewal" story here, but I think as I write this, I am encouraged to go home and make a cake tomorrow and call my adult kids over for some family time. One or more may be working, or too tired...but I will bribe them with the batter bowl and spatula. 

      Anything for a renewing visit and time of thankfulness that they all, the three kids and the three grand kids, are within hollering distance and would drop everything and come if we needed them. 

 

That is a blessing. 

 Char