Simple pleasures: Here I am at about a year old or so, in some sort of tub in the back yard. Seems I liked to take my baths outside sometimes. And check out my favorite bath toy. It's an empty coffee can. Nothing fancy here. 
Christmas. I'm assuming this is in 1971. The photos aren't marked, but I look about 2-years-old. What caught my eye about these photos is the toy I am opening. It is a kitchen appliance set and on the box it says "all steel." Won't see that on a child's toy these days.
(Hey, is my pretend bread done yet?)
Remember metal toys? Tonka dump trucks? No plastic when we were kids, and we turned out OK. Well, I think I'm OK anyway. Have to ask my husband about that one...
Looking through old pictures is a good way to get story ideas. I've discovered a couple stories hiding out in these old images. I may not remember all the situations I'm looking at, but what the heck...I'll just start from scratch.
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I ADORED my toy stove -- that really cooked. This was about 1949 and no one worried about letting a six year old have an electric stove.
Making bread pudding from scratch was my specialty -- and it was really good, at least, that's how I remember it.
Years after these photos were taken, I received an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas. Loved it. Of course, it cooked with a light bulb, so it wasn't too big of a deal. A few years ago, a friend of mine gave me a new one for Christmas as kind of a gag. Looks like a microwave instead of the brown stove my old one was. Still uses a light bulb, though.
Your stove really cooked? Wow. And you were making bread pudding at 6? Double wow. Bet it was good...especially to a 6-year-old. ;-)
Susan, I've enjoyed looking through your posts. Like Vicki, I remember my first toy stove. It came with mixes for various treats, like gingerbread and chocolate cake. I sometimes wish I could go back to that original excitment about kitchens. I have boxes of recipes all of over the house! I keep thinking that someday I will try them all.
Yeah, I have tons of recipes now. I don't use most of them, but I just can't seem to part with any of them, especially the older recipe books. They are so fun to look through.
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