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Skriven 2014-12-18 16:05:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: houses
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 12-16-14  20:50 <=-

 NB>> And may have retained just enough memory of the disappointment to make
 NB>> sure that her kids got the experience of the snow...  :)

 RH> Could be part of it. She did have other opportunities to play in snow,
 RH> especially when we were in Germany. But that trip to NY was memorable
 RH> in that Steve's mom gave Rachel a Strawberry Shortcake doll for
 RH> Christmas. We had to travel back to NC in a small, closed up car with
 RH> the aroma of artificial strawberries permeating the car. (G)

That would certainly make it memorable for you... (G)  It was a nicely
intended present, I'm sure... I'd forgotten they'd been scented... :)
 
 RH>>> 15-20 degrees cooler than the Phoenix area, year round.
 NB>>> The heat of the Phoenix area is what finally convinced our son
 NB>>> that he didn't really want to stay there forever...  ;)
 RH>> He should have checked out other parts of the state.
 NB>> Oh, he did.  He only wanted to live in Phoenix Valley, for other
 NB>> reasons... as those became less important, the disadvantages were
 NB>> more apparent...  And also, he decided that it was time to spend
 NB>> some time nearer to family for a while.  :)

 RH> Sounds like a good reason to come back. My sister moved out to the
 RH> Phoenix area 20 years ago for her husband's (then) job; she doesn't
 RH> want to come back. We prefer the southeast corner, with visits to
 RH> just south of Phoenix.
 
Just as in food, people have different tastes in where to live, and
where they feel comfortable..  :)  Now the kid's in Florida, looking for
(or having just obtained) a boat job for the winter/spring... ;)

 NB>>> I'd help Mom with the dishes after the meal... and we'd do the
 NB>>> dessert dishes after everyone else had left..  :)  There was no
 NB>>> point in trying to eat dessert right away, since everyone was
 NB>>> full to the gills, and things needed to at least settle, to say
 NB>>> nothing of digest...  ;)
 RH>> It does make more sense to let the main part of the meal settle before
 RH>> dessert. I never knew why my mom and her mom didn't see that, didn't
 RH>> question it as a kid either because I had to go with what the grown
 RH>> ups wanted. I've served dessert some time after the main meal when I
 RH>> cooked dinner, disrupting the family "tradition".
 NB>> I don't really remember what my family did... I'm guessing that we
 NB>> either had the desserts later, or only had something like ice cream,

 RH> My mom always did pumpkin pie and for years, my brothers played Tic
 RH> Tac Toe on their pieces.

And they got away with it...?   (G)
 
 NB>> if it was just us...  I wasn't going to Richard's family's
 NB>> Thanksgivings back then, of course... that started when we were
 NB>> in college, starting to get serious..  ;)

 RH> The first Thanksgiving I spent with Steve's family was after we'd been
 RH> married for several years. Spent the first one with him the year
 RH> before we got married; he officially proposed the night before.

Thanksgiving was always THE important holiday to Richard's grandparents.
When Richard brought me to the first one, the family all figured I was
the one, even though we hadn't made any permanent commitments to each
other yet...  ;)
 
 RH>> We usually don't do doughnuts but got these in anticipation of the
 RH>> moving crew coming in. The crew was smaller than expected so we had
 RH>> left overs, which are now gone. I probably won't have another one
 RH>> for years.
 NB>> Ah.  As you aren't likely to have the occasion....   ;)

 RH> Actually our choir director brought some in for practice on Saturday
 RH> but we declined.

Easier to decline when someone else is providing...  :)

ttyl       neb

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