My boyfriend recently came to pick me up for dinner and brought some dishes I had left at his grandmother’s house from a dinner we had had with her. When I looked in the bag, I found that she had filled the dishes with homemade Pecan Sandie cookies!
I had never had Pecan Sandies from scratch and biting into them brought back memories of childhood and my mom buying them from the store. They were the perfect balance of sweet, salty, crunchy, and crumbly. They immediately made me feel loved.
My boyfriend’s grandmother appears to make everything from scratch and it always tastes so good! It’s a taste you can’t get when you buy baked goods. She also cans vegetables and fruits and doesn’t let anything go to waste. It is a wonderful testament to her generation and it of course makes me think of memories of my grandparents as well.
Amazingly, I then opened my Grandmother Krueger’s “Grandmother Always Told Me….” newspaper column articles, and the FIRST line in her article from February 1980 (shown on my “Inspiration” page) is:
“Every family ought to have a grandmother living close enough to provide cookies and sympathy and lots of fascinating stories.”
Cookies symbolize the love we receive from our grandmothers and it’s a memory I will always treasure.
All of this also makes me think that if I were a grandmother, what would I do to show my family I loved them?
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