Dear family,
I've decided to try my hand at blogging again. I think the reason it didn't work for me last time was that I didn't have a definite direction. For a long time I have wanted to put together a family cookbook. It is a daunting task. Back then I asked family members for recipes and didn't get a single recipe. Plenty of them wanted a copy when I was done, though. I was thinking recently that I could blog family recipes.
When Katie has time I'm going to see if she can help me spruce up my look; that is the look of this blog. So if any of you have any recipe requests just let me know and I will post them. In a perfect world I would actually make the recipe, photograph it and then blog it. I hope to at least write a few sentences about why the recipe is special to our family and how it came to be in our family. I think I may include some sewing/quilting projects just by way of documenting them for our family. So any old photos of things I've made could be a fun place to start, especially if any of my girls are wearing my projects.
So this would be a lovely example of my handiwork circa December 1991
Matching Christmas dresses! I also made the stockings that are hanging on the mantle. I think it was Daisy who ripped up one of them to get to the chocolate inside. It was the next year that I ordered the ones from Lands End that we have been using ever since. The bed spread is on the hearth because a Natalie and Franny got tangled up and Natalie fell into that brick. She ended up with a huge fat lip and two loose teeth. Thankfully they tightened back up and all was well.
Of course family stories are also worth preserving. I know you know what I'm talking about; those stories, usually told around the supper table, that make us laugh til our sides hurt. You get the picture. A little of this and a little of that - that is special to our family. Things that we want to remember.
Here's hoping this will be the first of many posts that will help us record some of our family history.
