Barb, We have more in common than a love of cooking and our interest in Pa-Dutch culture.I,too, had a home daycare center in our home.I retired because of having a very severe case of Lyme Disease in 1990.[I was not a fortunate as George Bush.]Mine left me neurologically impaired. My mother before me had a daycare center all my life,and when Tom and I purchased my childhood home;a huge Victorian in Collingswood,N.J.,I took the childrren she had then. The center grew like the proverbial Topsy,and for over 20 years I had my business.When you described how your kids parents smelled your supper cooking,and wanted to stay,so did mine...often they did.We all became "like family". Thanks for sharing the recipes,I shall try them. Remember"Kissing don't last,but cooking does" ! Jerilyn

Jerilyn, Yes when we moved here to Missouri after just a year of marriage I needed something to do. I started out just babysitting for 1 child in their home then another in my home. Then I decided to teach weight watchers for a while got pregnant and decided to be a stay at home mom.. That's when I started my daycare 20 years ago..I told my neighbor I want a dozen children, well over the years I have had over 80 children that I have raised like my own.. Now I'm about ready to retire.. I have cared for my own children, their friends, and some of their friends children.. Full circle I guess.. Everyone calls me MOM :) Funny story is that when my daycare parents want to have another baby they come and ask me first if its okay.. I'm not taking any new kids now so I can retire when hubby does...I now have a new granddaughter who turns a month old on the 17th. Such a great thing to be a grandparent.. :) I do love to cook and most of my daycare parents have stayed and had supper with us at one time or another..I BBQ a lot and the whole neighborhood smells my food cooking..Around here you can BBQ most year round winters are not to bad...Not like in PA.. When we get a few inches of snow they close the schools. Hey I remember walking to school in PA when the snow was 2 foot or more...That's another story.. :) What other things do you like to do? I love to paint, in fact I have been hand painting gun stocks now for several years and I go to gun shows and shooting with my hubby once in a while.. I'm a pretty good shot as hubby says....I have done wall picture's also... Barb ----- Original Message ----- From: <thos@comcast.net> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 5:32 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] recipes > Barb, > We have more in common than a love of cooking and our interest in Pa-Dutch > culture.I,too, had a home daycare center in our home.I retired because of > having a very severe case of Lyme Disease in 1990.[I was not a fortunate > as George Bush.]Mine left me neurologically impaired. > My mother before me had a daycare center all my life,and when Tom and I > purchased my childhood home;a huge Victorian in Collingswood,N.J.,I took > the childrren she had then. > The center grew like the proverbial Topsy,and for over 20 years I had my > business.When you described how your kids parents smelled your supper > cooking,and wanted to stay,so did mine...often they did.We all became > "like family". > > Thanks for sharing the recipes,I shall try them. > Remember"Kissing don't last,but cooking does" ! > Jerilyn > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

My daughter has a home daycare business. Over the years we have watched the kids grow, enter kindergarten, go on to first grade and all the wonders of childhood. I have stood on the sidewalk watching them parade for Halloween, attended various concerts and plays they have been in at school. They see me and know I am "Granna". What's not to love in their trusting faces? While vacationing in southern Ohio I saw a woman who acknowledged me. I knew I knew her, but from where? And why at this location would I see someone I recognized, almost. Finally, she laughed and said, "I'm Kylie's mom!" We laughed. Of course, her little one is a preschooler under my daughter's care. Smiles, Anna -----Original Message----- From: padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of thos@comcast.net Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 6:33 AM To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] recipes Barb, We have more in common than a love of cooking and our interest in Pa-Dutch culture.I,too, had a home daycare center in our home.I retired because of having a very severe case of Lyme Disease in 1990.[I was not a fortunate as George Bush.]Mine left me neurologically impaired. My mother before me had a daycare center all my life,and when Tom and I purchased my childhood home;a huge Victorian in Collingswood,N.J.,I took the childrren she had then. The center grew like the proverbial Topsy,and for over 20 years I had my business.When you described how your kids parents smelled your supper cooking,and wanted to stay,so did mine...often they did.We all became "like family". Thanks for sharing the recipes,I shall try them. Remember"Kissing don't last,but cooking does" ! Jerilyn ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message