We went to my parents yesterday for dinner. I got the opportunity to talk to my Mom about my new adventure in cookbook writing! It wasn’t long after we started talking that I was sitting on the floor in front of her old washstand and pulling out her old notebooks and recipe cards filled with all the meals I grew up on. If you can imagine, my parents have been married for more than forty years. Imagine if you can the number of meals my mother prepared, feeding her husband and us four kids. Between breakfast, lunch and dinner, over the years, I imagine my mother has prepared over 43 thousand meals!! Talk about feeding your guy! I have to admit she has definitely slowed down in the cooking department and my father picked up the reins. But I certainly realized, sitting leafing through her recipes, we all owe her a huge debt of thanks for all those years of care. I can hardly imagine myself giving half as much or as willingly. I am sure over the next while I will be reflecting more on Mom’s gift to all of us. Now that I am armed with even more recipes and memories, I have to get myself disciplined this week to keep at it. Work is really busy this week and I have a slight resentment towards work despite the fact that I generally quite like my job. My day job seems to be getting in the way of my passion! And only five more sleeps till our honeymoon. Lots of reasons to not sleep at night now!!!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
At your mother's feet
We went to my parents yesterday for dinner. I got the opportunity to talk to my Mom about my new adventure in cookbook writing! It wasn’t long after we started talking that I was sitting on the floor in front of her old washstand and pulling out her old notebooks and recipe cards filled with all the meals I grew up on. If you can imagine, my parents have been married for more than forty years. Imagine if you can the number of meals my mother prepared, feeding her husband and us four kids. Between breakfast, lunch and dinner, over the years, I imagine my mother has prepared over 43 thousand meals!! Talk about feeding your guy! I have to admit she has definitely slowed down in the cooking department and my father picked up the reins. But I certainly realized, sitting leafing through her recipes, we all owe her a huge debt of thanks for all those years of care. I can hardly imagine myself giving half as much or as willingly. I am sure over the next while I will be reflecting more on Mom’s gift to all of us. Now that I am armed with even more recipes and memories, I have to get myself disciplined this week to keep at it. Work is really busy this week and I have a slight resentment towards work despite the fact that I generally quite like my job. My day job seems to be getting in the way of my passion! And only five more sleeps till our honeymoon. Lots of reasons to not sleep at night now!!!
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Well Jamie I just got caught up on your recent blogs and am absolutely speechless. You can most certainly "write". Your attention to detail in your words amaze me. When I read your blogs I can picture everything you are seeing and describing.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit "At your mothers feet" brought me to tears. My mother cooked for her husband and 9 children over the years. Sometimes that is taken for granted and we don't think about how much work just the cooking alone is, never mind all of the other work a mother does.
I have a couple of my mothers cook books and one is actually ripped in half (her fav i think!) Bindings are important...hehe!!