Eating Something Fattening So Good It Makes You Feel Happy

This is my 1000 article for the Patches.

Oh how Mom and Dad would have been proud of their baby girl
daughter. Mom would have been one hundred and six today, it is her birthday and
Dad would be one hundred and twenty one in November. Dad use to write columns
himself and he wrote letters to the editor of the Morning Sunpapers at least once
a week. He would comment on current events and they would publish each and
every letter that he handwrote to them each week. They tried to get him to buy
a typewriter even though his handwriting was pretty clear and concise. He could
not afford one in those days of nineteen hundred and forty-eight to nineteen
hundred and sixty nine when he passed on. He would sit there in the late
evening at the kitchen table and handwrite the letter to the editor with his
trusty Schaeffer ink pen (no ballpoint pens in those early years had been
invented then) and he would fill the pen bottom up with ink from a black ink
bottle. Then he would neatly stamp his business size envelope and walk it to
the mailbox which was about two blocks away. Then about two days later, he would
look for it under Letters to the Editor and there it always was on the letter
page. He would call Mom and say “Lea, they published it.” He was so proud and
he would cut it out of the paper in order for him to tuck it away in a
scrapbook for further insertion. When he passed on, the Sun called us and asked
for some information on his life, so they could publish a nice obituary about him.
My brother Herbert gave them the information on how he had come to this country
with his folks and siblings when he was seven from Russia, legally.

They said he had three grandchildren at that time and he was
just seventy-two and how they always published his letters and that he was
quite prolific. He would have been so proud to see what they wrote. He always
said “as long as they spell our name right, everything is OK.” Yes, Dad they
spelled our name right.

It is said that “one small thought in the morning can change
your whole day.” Of course, it is better if the one small thought is a happy
thought and not a sad or depressing thought. It is also “a day to refill your
soul and to be grateful for your blessings.”

Do you do that when you awaken? Do you think “I wonder if
something great will happen to me today?”

If you do, then you probably are in the minority. Most
people have to get ready for their work day and they may think that they hope
it will be a nice day or perhaps something wonderful will occur. If they are at
work, then perhaps a pleasant remark from their boss or a nice compliment from
a client and then they look forward to their homecoming with their family.
Perhaps, the wife will cook a delicious dinner; the children will run to their daddy,
glad to see he is home. If you are a female, you may look forward to maybe the
husband who came home earlier will have started dinner and the kids are happy
Mom is home now too. If you are single, then perhaps you look forward to having
dinner with your lady friends or perhaps you have a date.

So five o’clock looks delightful if your closing day is
then, some are earlier because they start the day earlier and others may be on
a later closing time because they came in later. There is not much time from
coming home until it is bath time and sleep time. You seem to have little time
for yourself during the five day work week and then the weekends become your
delightful two days off.

If you have a job where you work the weekends, then maybe
you have two days off in the middle of the week and they become your delightful
two days off. Enjoy them and do what needs to be done, whether for you or for the home or the family.

We use to eat delly when my husband was off and oh how we enjoyed the hotdogs so full of nitrates and grease. We went to the delly restaurant and ordered a lot because we had saved our calories for hotdogs, cole slaw, potato salad, pickles and sometimes chicken noodle soup with so many noodles, there was hardly room for the liquid.

This was our treat for when I was a teen and when I was married, we took the same menu for our excitement. It need not be an expensive meal, just something as plain as a good Kosher style hotdog and the sides you choose. It is who you eat with and not always what you eat. When Dad died, Mom said she missed him so much, especially their meals they ate together and most of them she had created so delicious long before Rachael Ray and Geoff the chef.