Julie's thoughts (via Katie)

My mom sent me an email with lots of information and memories.  These are some of the fun ones.  

 

Easter

When you kids were little we were invited to mom and dad's for Easter.  Now, mom made the best ham, potato salad, and baked beans.  Usually we had this every Easter  One particular year she decided to for go  the usual and ground up the ham into sandwich spread.  Like "deviled ham" you can buy in the can.  (I assume you can still buy it, I don't like it so I've never looked for it.) We were to spread it on hamburger buns and toast it in the oven.  I really can't remember what else she served but the "deviled ham" will always stand out in my memories.  We gave her a very bad time and she never tried to serve that again.  

She would hide Easter eggs in the back yard for you to find.

Illinois is a big producer of corn.  Paxton (town we lived in) had a corn festival and we went to the town park to eat corn.   There were huge pots of corn cooking.  We ate lots of corn picnic style.  

We eventually moved on base.  Lakenheath AFB.  I was excited because we could walk to school. I was in the third grade.  Mom became my Brownie Girl Scout leader.    Up until this time I assume we went to church but I don't recall it.  I remember  at this time because  mom was my brownie leader, primary teacher and I think she was the primary president.  We had primary during the week. She would run us  from primary to brownies.  While in primary mom taught me to make rice krispie squares. It was for a primary competition, I think I won because mom had me put chocolate frosting on them.

Mom organized a Daddy/Daughter date for those in our primary class. There was just 3 of us.  She cooked the meal.  

One of the other moms made all of us  girls red jumpers  to wear.  

We made friends with some of the English people, the Dawdry's.  We would go to their house in Ipswich and they would come to our house.  One time mom served corn with dinner and was informed that corn was for cows,  not humans.  They did not eat the corn and mom never served it again when we had company.