Category: Memories

• Memories Baking with Mawmaw

  My grandmother (Mawmaw) did a lot of baking when I was growing up. When I was about 3 or 4 years old is when she started pulling a chair up next to the counter, let me stand in the chair and help her. I have so many memories of making cakes, pies and various other…

  Dana Lou

  March 21, 2023

  Memories, From Childhood

  baking, cakes, candies, childhood, grandmother, grandparents, memories, pies

• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

  Ever hear the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words”? Growing up I remember hearing that phrase many times. Sometimes, it doesn’t have to be an actual photograph, it can be something you actually see then frame it in your mind like a picture. I like to dabble in photography. Nothing fancy, not a…

  Dana Lou

  December 30, 2022

  From Childhood, Memories

  child, childhood, grandparents, Great Grandmother, memories, olddays, rocking chair

• Going back to 1974

  Jumping back to 1974 when we moved out of the mobile home on the little hill next to my grandparent’s house and into the old wooden house just about a mile or two from my grandparent’s house. Other than spending time with my best friend, Stacy while we lived there, that old house holds many,…

  Dana Lou

  November 16, 2022

  Memories, Reality of Life With My Parents

  child, childhood, childhoodabuse, lifestory, memories, surviving, survivor, warrior