You were a lucky child! My grandmother had a massive stroke in her early 50s and was unable to cook a big meal for us. She made the best Snow Icecream though. We brought in a bowl of fresh snow and she mixed chocolate with it and we had chocolate snow ice cream. We did go to aunts and uncles houses for Christmas and that was a feast, I remember a whole table loaded with homemade pies! YUM! I miss my grandma. She would have been 100 by now. She was a saint. My only regret is that I didn't go visit her MORE OFTEN in the nursing home.
Many of us have that same regret...
(sigh)