Grandma’s Stories

Jun 5th I’m Doing

Around age ‘two’, and I can not call ‘two’, terrible, because I was always , ‘Trying To Help’. First child, is the family’s  ‘learning on project’. The one that everything is tried on first, to see if it works, this way or that?

This “First Child”, was born under the “Sign”,  of everything being perfect in the  household,  and, you will have the best, perfect, quiet, well-behaved, no-nonsense child, you could ask for. Most cooperative, always watching ‘how to do stuff’, and one that will do what one saw  you do.

My mother called, “Mary Ellen what are you doing?” I guess no one saw me , and did not hear anything , for awhile.  “Mary Ellen, what are you doing?”  “I’m doing”  Now,  she knew,  where  I was,  under the  kitchen table, and the table cloth was hanging so long – she could not see me. When she pulled  up the table cloth , she almost had , ‘ heart failure’.  I had piles of sugar, flour, dry soap powder, all large containers of dry ingredients, mixing and making piles, just like in the sand box.  “Total Waste”.

 

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