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Note: Mom was an excellent cook, seamstress, and arts and crafts person. She made my first formal on grandpa's tailor machine. It was a lavender taffeta with a net overskirt. I loved lavender but the color did nothing for me. She also made a beautiful yellow taffeta formal with a soft organza overskirt of yellow for my high school junior/senior banquet and prom. However, I didn't go to the prom because I didn't have a date. My friend Norma Tweeton and I went to the banquet and had a ball.
She loved to do all sorts of needle work: knitting, crocheting, embroidery, and sewing. When Greg was three years old and was ready to attend Sunday School, he was so attached to Mom that she couldn't get him to stay there without her. So she stayed and assisted. The next year she was the Sunday School teacher. She started a tradition in our family of baking cupcakes at Christmas time and singing happy birthday to baby Jesus. Her Sunday School children loved it too.
Each Easter she baked two circle cakes and cut them to form a rabbit. Then she would cut out pink ears from construction paper, use jelly beans for the face features, and colored coconut green for grass. Another tradition that I wasn't able to get into do to time and work. However, we frequently joined them at Easter and she made this for Heather also.
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