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I want to share with you my vary favorite 

Christmas gift that I made this year.

As I've mentioned before, my Mom is 90 yrs old

and has a limited budget.

She still wants to be able to give Christmas gifts 

to everyone.

This is what I came up with this year.

I have Moms recipe box and together we went through

it and chose the family favorites.

I scanned the recipe cards into my computer, printed

them onto card stock and made them into a cook book.

Most of the recipes are in Mom's handwriting,

some have stains from being used for so many years,

some are faded and/or yellowed.

BUT they are all hers.

Some of them are recipes that will probably never 

be made, but they bring back happy childhood

memories for me as well as my brothers, so 

they are included in the book.

The picture on the cover was one I took of 

Mom at my nephew's wedding in October.

I was thrilled with how these books turned out

and everyone seemed to love them.

We will have a "piece" of Mom with us forever.

Before I assembled the books, I was going to visit

Mom and thought I'd take a cover to show her what

it would look like.

I had a doctors appointment before I went to see her,

so I took the picture in to show Dr. P, as he was her doctor before

she moved to assisted living. I thought he'd like to see

a picture of her and how great she looks.

When I showed him the picture, he looked at it turned it over

then asked "Where are the recipes?  I want the recipes."

I told him I hadn't put the books together yet and he

said that he wanted one, that he would love to have

some of her recipes and that he wanted to buy one from me and

did I think she would autograph one for him.

I gotta say, I just love my doctor, he is absolutely 

wonderful, not only as a doctor, but as a person.

He just adores Mom and treated her with great

respect and care.

Well, of course, he got a cook book and she 

autographed it for him!