As a matter of record, in Mama’s kitchen there was always a cook table covered with oil cloth. It had pretty patterns in kitchen decor. A large safe rested against the wall with screen doors inset on top and two drawers and cabinets and shelves on the bottom. There were always shelves on the wall and in the pantry for canned food. We always had jellies, jams, and preserves made from blackberries, huckleberries, may haws, grapes, figs, and watermelon rind. Mama always canned 500 jars of peas, butter beans, green beans, okra, corn, and tomatoes. Our fast food was a jar of tomato vegetable soup that you could open and heat on the coals in the fireplace.
In the dining room, there was always a large table with benches on each side-- the length of the table. There were chairs on the end. Sometimes there was a safe in there. I just wanted you to see mama’s kitchen. She had pretty starched and ironed curtains on the windows and it was always very clean and the linoleum on the floor was clean and shiny. I always remember waking in the mornings and listening to mama singing, “Amazing Grace” or “His Eye is on the Sparrow” or other hymns. Then I would smell bacon or sausage cooking and her wonderful gravy simmering as well as those huge biscuits baking. So don’t feel sorry for me because I didn’t have a fine house or get a bicycle or beautiful dolls for Christmas. I was really rich in every way that mattered!!! I love you all…..
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas.
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