Back to Familiar Things

Sometimes doing familiar things or people (just kidding:) can be good or bad . But this post is about doing something that was familar to my family before my mom got sick.

That thing was Friday night dinner with fried catfish, spaghetti, and Mom's world famous cole slaw. We had not done that since June 2006. On Friday, Gabrielle asked what we were eating for dinner and the first thing that came to mind was catfish. Now I was so tired from work, and I certainly did not feel like grocery shopping and cooking. But something moved me to do it.

I went old school by making my own batter out of corn meal. The skill of preparing spaghetti was learned under the tuteledge of my sister. The only reason that I know how to fix the cole slaw was because momma told me how to fix it while she was sick. So I will always have a personal connection to that dish:)

We all ate and it was goooooood!!! So it can be refreshing to reconnect with those things and people that are familiar to you.