lincoln's Birthday

In our house while raising our five little darlings we celebrated every holiday with special food. Lincoln's Birthday was a delicious Lincoln's log; It was a yellow cake rolled with chocolate icing in the middle and iced with chocolate. I do not know where the recipe came from probably a magazine but was great. Can not say much more than that so this will be short.

best gift

My writing class nezt month wants us to write about the best gift we ever got. I will try that out. After the war when we were all on stamps my mother use to buy things at a place run by the Santa Fe Railroad with damaged goods. She bought two of my facvorites catsup and peaches in large cans and recanned them in smaller amounts. One birthday she asked me what I wanted and I told her a can of Del Monte peaches and a bottle of Heinz catsup. For my birthday that year I got a bottle of catsup and a can of peaches. They were delicious. If at 88 I still remember they must have been good. I still love them.

vALENTINE'S dAY

I have received a Valentine from my granddaughter Holly. When I was growing up it was not my most popular holiday as I did not receive a lot of Valentines but I like it now. Growing up in school I sometimes got mean ones but my mother use to go to school and give me one very nice fancy Valentine. After I grew up my husband once gave me 30 valentines and I love the candy you get if you are lucky. My grand children in Wichita had a very clever teacher that had a party for the grandparents on that day and put on a play where every student had one line and then you helped the kids make valentines to take home. They put on a play where everyone in the class had one line called "The thing in the forest". One year Ray gave me 30 valentines. Now I already have one. I use to know how the Day got started but it has slipped a bit in my mind so I will just relax and enjoy it. I may mail a few myself.

Groundhog Day

Today a Groundhog named Phil tells me if I see his shadow in Pennslyvania I will have more winter or less. It seems kind of far away to me to tell me what the weather will be in Kansas City. It was not a day I grew up celebrating nor did even when I was grown and always puzzled me but it made a great movie a few years back. Happy Groundhog Day to those who may read this.