cookin in the kitchen

No we're really cooking. we got 15 pints, two quarts and two 1/2 pints of cornrelish canned today and it is uuummm good. /got the kitchen cleaned up too. It is fun to watch mom in the kitchen. It is like she just can't get done cooking. she had a little fruit left from yesterday and had to make jam of it. she peeled the big leafs from the caggage to make stuffed cabbage. I said "do we have to make that today" and she agreed it could wait until tomorrow. she was very intent about me learning how to make the relish this time.  I found out a long time ago that cleaning the kitchen up all nice and tidy was like giving mom a canvas, like the artist she is at cooking. although she does not either get it or want to, that people just don't eat like they use to and dumplins and gravy/bisquits and all the trimmings are good but not good for any of us. back when you had to chase that chicken down, kill her, pluck, and the rest, you spent a lot more calories just prepearing your food. Exercise was only a thing for the elite. now it is what everyone has to do to burn the calories we used to burn just doing daily living activities, like get up and turn the station or go in the other room and answer the phone or walk to the corner store, go gather the eggs or vegetables. As technology has grown, so have we. it has been a long day. I have noticed a very big part of my life has changed. No little ones running around under my feet.  soon we will have little miss april to help fill that void. hope susy enjoys her actual retirement. wish we could have had a little party for her. We all seven got together to do things for mom and dad but life is so different now and I don't know if retirement will even be in our vocabulary in another twenty years.   prayers and love to all