franek80
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Post by franek80 on Feb 8, 2008 15:14:45 GMT -7
 Hey Mike do you remember these baskets as kids we took them to church on good saturday to be blessed. Franek. |
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Post by valpomike on Feb 8, 2008 16:16:45 GMT -7
franek80,
Sure do, and the priest would walk around and bless them, or we would put them by the rail, and he would bless them there. I don't see any ham, in your basket.
Michael Dabrowski
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Post by franek80 on Feb 9, 2008 8:10:19 GMT -7
Looking at this post reminds me of story about my early life.. At the age of about eight,I was a real street urchin. As I played outside of our house. I caught the aroma of POLISH SAUSAGE HAM AND bABKA. I went in and wanted to eat. MOM said NO,not until it is blessed.. I took the basket and ran all the way to the church. On the way back,you could follow my trail by looking for egg shells.. I also bit into the KIELBASA AND HAM. When I returned my Mother looked at the basket and exclaimed. JESUS MARIA,MATKA BOSKA. CO TAM STALO DO NASZE SWIENSONKA? (JESUS MARY<MOTHER OF GOD<WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR EASTER BASKET)
I looked at her very veryt innocently. She smiled patted my head and told me to go out and play. I loved my mom.
Franek
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Post by Mary on Feb 9, 2008 8:38:13 GMT -7
Franek, What a lovely story! I could just hear my grandmother's voice while reading that. Nearly brought me to tears.......  Thanks, Mary |
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Post by valpomike on Feb 9, 2008 9:00:48 GMT -7
franek80,
Your Mother, like you, was a great person, with much understanding. We need more like her today. I try each day, but with some of the people today, it is very hard, to understand, or turn the other check. We have some real airheads out there now.
Michael Dabrowski
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Post by franek80 on Feb 9, 2008 10:14:00 GMT -7
Mary!
I see that you like stories..Although I am not a story teller I can recount things in my life from
your Dads generation. As they come to mind,I will tell them..I have a good one in mind. Knowing you for such a short time,I feel that I know you very well..At times I may use some raw phrases. But we are all grownups.. If I get a chance this afternoon,I will tell it.Look for it on this thread.
Franek
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Post by Mary on Feb 9, 2008 10:26:36 GMT -7
Mary! I see that you like stories..Although I am not a story teller I can recount things in my life from your Dads generation. As they come to mind,I will tell them..I have a good one in mind. Knowing you for such a short time,I feel that I know you very well..At times I may use some raw phrases. But we are all grownups.. If I get a chance this afternoon,I will tell it.Look for it on this thread. Franek Thank you Fraenk, Yes I love stories! Raw phrases don't bother me a bit. This is life, and I too may on occasion throw out a colorful word. I will be off here for a few hours until this evening. My siblings and I are throwing my mother a "surprise" birthday party today. She is a young 80 yr old, as of the 7th. In my mind she has never aged, and has always been a beautiful person. I have a story for you too. I loved hearing my dad tell it.. My dads older siblings were in school and he and a baby brother were home with his mother. At the time their chickens weren't laying many eggs, and an egg was most always saved for his father or an older son. My grandma told dad that he could have the egg that day, but he had to promise not to tell the older children. He felt so privileged and special! When the other children came home from school he greeted them at the door, saying....... "I didn't have an egg!" |
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