Just for You, Mom...
Today, I baked gingersnaps, in loving remembrance of my mom. I hadn't made these delectable cookies since baking them for her at Christmas 2009, her last holiday with us. They were her favorites- spicy and slightly crisp- and I baked them for her often, keeping the cookie jar full so she could enjoy having two or three each afternoon with her tea. As I was rolling the dough into balls, rolling the balls in sugar, and lining them up on the cookie sheets for baking, I was thinking of her...recalling her pleasure at something so simple. And Mom did find delight in simple things, never expecting or demanding that life hand her "spectacular" or even "special". She accepted what came, what life had to offer, and lived with and through it all with both amazing grace and dignity. She was a true "lady", in the old-fashioned sense of the word... even in her old age, bearing the losses and indignities of advancing years with patience and a ...