Dessert Recipe

Share your favorite dessert recipe.

Title: Pumpkin DelightDescription:Some would call these tarts...but since they are sweet...they just look like tarts! I intended to make these for our potluck at church this past Sunday. However the store was out of pumpkin so I used blueberry instead. Enjoy!

Ingredients:1 can of pumpkin spice it up the way you like it

1 box of cheesecake pudding 2 Cups of Cool Whip

Frozen Mini Fillo Shells

Directions:Mix the pumpkin and pudding real well Blend in the Cool Whip

Winter Storm

Share a story about a severe winter storm.

Ah, the traditional American story. That question for me should be about a severe earthquake! I went through many of those. The funniest story I recall, and I do have many earthquake stories, is when one was strong enough to devastate the whole neighborhood where our First Church was located. My dad helped clear rubble to find people. They were loading dead people on a truck. That was not funny! Dad had loaded a little lady on the truck and went back to work to find more people. As he turned around with another body...the lady he had just loaded was sitting up!!!!!! She looked at the bodies under her, then at my dad....screamed and jumped off the truck and ran away!! As you can imagine, that sort of freaked my dad out somewhat!!!!!

First Job

Tell me about your first job.

I created my first job by taking on the role as an Avon Lady while in High School. I used to pass my books down the row in class and get my orders. I continued that in college but people would order things and then not have the money and I no longer lived with my parents to bail me out of those situations!

At both of the colleges I went to I worked in the college bookstore. In the summers I worked at the Nazarene bookstore. My sophomore year I added the job of being a waitress at Denny's and then switched over to a House of Fabrics Warehouse. That summer I sold custom fitted bras door to door!!!!!! :?)

Chores

What chores did you have to do when you were growing up? Did you get an allowance? How much was it?

We always had to make our beds! Depending if we were in the US or on the mission field we had to do the dishes. On the mission field we had maids so we did not help as much in the kitchen. In the US we helped with everything. Saturday mornings were meant for cleaning. The house was cleaned spic and span every Sat. When I got married I thought that was how we would do it. It seemed like we found more interesting things to do and my kids never got that structured house cleaning I was raised with. Poor things....if I was cleaning the whole house at one time they knew we had an event coming up!!!!!

Allowance? I think we might have done that for awhile when we lived in San Antonio. A quarter a week!!!!!

Pets

What was the name of your favorite pet? Why was it your favorite?

I am not sure we had my favorite pet long enough to name it! It was a coatimundi or pisote.

It is in the raccoon family, looks like a ant eater and has hands and personality like a monkey.

He would open up containers we gave to him. He would spread talcum, toothpaste, or perfume all over his tail! He had a fascination with dresses or skirts. Forty some years ago when we lived in Guatemala the women did not wear slacks. Every time we had a guest come over the pisote would run up to the woman, grab her skirt or dress and stand up with it!!!!!! Well that did not go over well in the home of two missionaries so my dad gave it away not too long after we got it!!!!

Favorite Meal

What was your favorite meal when you were a child? What made it your favorite?

As a young child I grew up on the campus where my parents worked and my older siblings came home for lunch so we actually had three sit down meals a day with all seven members of the family together!!!!! We had no TV or telephone to interrupt that time!!!! Trying to remember a favorite at home does not click at the moment but I do remember Christmas Eve, late at night, after the Christmas program at church we got tamales. Now you must know that Guatemala is famous for having some of the best tamales. I recall all the little Indian ladies working hard to prepare those for a large crowd at our church in Coban. I recall sneaking out of the church to the kitchen(a seperate building...dirt floor if I recall correctly)to see when they would get done. I still long for Guatemalan tamales. I did find a restaurant in Oklahoma City that serves that particular kind. YUM!!!!!

Scent or Sound

What scent or sound immediately takes you back to childhood? Describe the feeling it evokes.

I don't know that I can describe the scent, but if I smell clothing that was woven in Guatemala it carries its own particular odor no matter how old the item is! It brings back good memories of wonderful days living in Guatemala. I watched women do their own weaving many times and I still admire their beautiful, colorful work!

Sounds, rain! It rained every day in Coban when we lived there. Rain brings back wonderful memories!