Cream Puffs by Madelyn Anderson Shields I must have been about four years old, with blue eyes and blond french braids looped and tied with a bow, that Mother made so tight that they wouldn't think of coming loose. Now, I was a very active child skipping, bouncing, hopping on one foot, showing off all my talents; I mean who could actually hop on one foot as good as I could!? My Grandmother Grace work downtown at a place called " The Homemade Bakery. " Grandmaw made all the fancy, delectable pastries like napoleons, eclairs, danish rolls and cream puffs. So, if you don't know what these pastries are you are simply missing out on the finer things of life! Mother got all dress up in her pretty dress, nylons with seams up the back of the leg, beautiful hair do, a hat and purse that matched. She was so beautiful... and dressed me up in my little print dress, Baby Doll shoes and white cotton socks folded down around my ankles just so. Kare...
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The Tin Foil by Madelyn Anderson Shields My sister, Karen and I got the bright ideas to play Dentist. We must have been the ripe old age of 9 (Karen) and me 7. We formed us a committee to decide what we must use for teeth tools. After discussing various options, it dawned on us, Mother's nut cracking set! Sure enough, we had the equipment right at our fingertips. Now, Mother always had nuts, in the shells, in a hand carved, walnut wood, equipped with all the tools standing like soldiers in a circle in the middle, bowl. So we snuck up on the bowl to make sure that Mother wasn't watching, reaching out like we were already caught taking the tools. We quickly gathered up Mother's nut cracker...the old metal one's that you squeezed on the nut to break the shell, and the nut picks that you used to dig the nuts out with. We had one of those small hand mirrors, like they put in purses...they were wraped in a little wax paper like envelope, for ou...