Grandmas legacy to mine
When the days of busy-ness and stress get to me, I often think back to how my grandmothers both handled things and what I remember the most is the way one of them learned to bide her time well in the garden- planting and weeding, pruning then picking it all just to spend hours in the hot kitchen with the windows open to water bath can or freeze it all for the future. Knowing her efforts then would yield saved hours and money later. Or the way my other grandmother spent hours in the kitchen cooking and baking everyone's favorite cookies or fried catfish because she knew we would come over soon and she wanted to have it ready for us. The way she was always sending my grandfather to the store for "just a few things" scribbled on a piece of paper for a recipe she needed to make for the women's group at church to serve at an upcoming funeral or fellowship meal. I remember going to her church and seeing leading the other ladies in the kitchen as they cooked and baked awa...