Traditions — Scheiss Weekly

Yes, Internet, There IS A Santa Claus.

December 17, 2011 – 9:47 pm

Mamacita says: It makes me sad that so many parents are not allowing their children to dwell in the world of innocent fantasy. These parents feel that to allow it is equivalent to lying to their children about what is real and what isn’t. Don’t they understand that to a child, both worlds are real? [...]

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What’s A Hoosier Thanksgiving Feast Without Persimmon Pudding?

November 22, 2011 – 6:59 pm

Mamacita says: What’s a Hoosier Thanksgiving feast without persimmon pudding? A travesty, that’s what! Whoever heard of such a thing? Ridiculous. Persimmons don’t grow in too many places, so chances are good that most of you have never heard of them. However, southern Indiana is a persimmon tree’s favorite home, and the trees grow healthy [...]

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No-Bake Cookies, Again? Your Wish Is My Command

June 5, 2011 – 10:37 pm

Mamacita says: Hot weather must have arrived for good because I’ve had a kazillion (rough estimate) requests for the NoBake Cookies recipe, so here is the one I use. Please bear in mind that I do not use actual measuring spoons for recipes I use a lot. ======= NoBake Cookies Put the following in a [...]

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Quotation Saturday, on Sunday: Mothers

May 8, 2011 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: This Sunday will be, appropriately enough, a day filled with mothers. Mine, my sisters, my niece, grandmothers, aunts, daughters, cousins, me. . . . all mothers, and several of them more than one KIND of mother. (no, not THAT kind of mother. Perhaps you were thinking of YOUR family?) Many mothers. Once upon [...]

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The Queen’s “We” Loves Morel Mushrooms

May 3, 2011 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: It’s that time again. That’s right; it’s finals week. Oh wait, that wasn’t what I meant to say. It’s that time again. The morel mushrooms are here. My husband still speaks wistfully of the day he and the kids visited his step-grandmother Margaret (she whom John Dillinger once tried to carjack. . . [...]

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Happy Easter, 2011

April 24, 2011 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: Happy Easter, everyone. What? Oh, oops. . . . . Here. This is more like it. I do love those vintage Easter postcards. I hated growing up and finding out that those baby kittens were probably going to eat those baby chicks. I would also hate to have to tell you all how [...]

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Faith and Begorrah

March 17, 2011 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: May you be buried in a casket made from the wood of a 100 year old oak That I shall plant tomorrow. Oh, tis a wondrous thing to be Irish, although the same could not be said earlier in our country’s history. Many people do not know how unwelcome the Irish were here, [...]

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Things I Still Haven’t Done Yet

February 11, 2011 – 10:02 pm

Mamacita says: what’s the hurry, anyway? 1. I have never used an ATM machine. I have a feeling it would be the beginning of a bad personal habit. 2. I still have never watched a single Survivor-type show. Still not interested. 3. Ditto for Oprah, and even less interested. 4. The Christmas wreath is probably [...]

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I’m really up for some good willie waught. Who’s with me?

December 31, 2010 – 3:50 am

Mamacita says: Well, my dears, here we all are once again, celebrating another new year with our real life friends and our other real life friends. Six years ago, I didn’t really consider my internet friends to be really and truly real, but I’ve learned better since the beginning. Online friends are as real as [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Christmas Day

December 25, 2010 – 11:55 pm

Mamacita says: Christmas is almost over, except that for people like me, Christmas is never really gone. Today has been lovely, truly lovely. My family, all together again, with food and conversation and games and candles and trees bedecked with twinkling stars . . . . People laugh and say that Christmas is a magical [...]