“mom ran out of butter on movie & popcorn night. So she tried to pass by us using bacon grease!”
That’s hilarious. One time, when I was a kid, probably age 10, Mom sent to the store around the corner to get popcorn. I saw that potato chips were on sale and it seemed like a good deal. Mother was pissed. She marched me to the shore to make sure I returned it and got popcorn.
Nowadays I don’t like chips that much. But I can eat a whole packet of OR popping corn no problem. I’m thinking about having a movie night once a week and on the same day every week. It would probably be on Friday or Saturday. I have about 10 movies recorded, all of which sound pretty good.
We always looked forward to Popcorn & movie night as kids. She would use her big bread bowl and load it up and we'd all have smaller bowls to fill from it. When it was gone we used our fingers to scrap every bit of butter that was left lining the bowl. It was also Soda night and the only time we could actually have it around.
We had such an appreciation for the simple shared moments growing up. Life was hard and we were poor but never knew it....we had a remarkable mother.