December 4, 2003

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  A house in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

  
  

  Well, it’s that time of year again. . . Candy Days.  Each year my sister, my mom and I all get together the first part of December and spend 2 or 3 days making candy.  It started out with just my mother making candy to give away at Christmas time, but them when it got to be too much for her to handle my sister Alice started helping.  After a couple years she suggested that I drive to OKC to get in on the fun and now we alternate the event between OKC and Dallas.  We’ve been doing that for about 6 years now, and this year is MY year.   Alice and mom will be heading towards Dallas in about a half hour and they should be here when I get off work.  The work is exhausting but we have a great time.  We make candy, stopping only for meals and bedtime until all the different varieties are completed.  We have kinds that we make EVERY year, and some years we try new kinds and decide whether to add them to our permanent list or to never make again.  We are all three “kitchen” women and love just gabbing, cooking and being together. . . and a little bit of what we like to call “quality control” . . ie taste testing the candy we’re making.

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