I had to cook some pumpkin squares for the twins class tomorrow. I was voluntold that was the recipe they signed me up to bring. It is so strange how a child hood memory can be sparked with just the smell of cooking a pumpkin dessert. My house is filled with the smell of my childhood tonight and my mind is filled with the memories that smell holds.
I miss being a kid today. A carefree, no worries, excited, "can't sleep because tomorrow is Halloween" kind of kid. I don't know why but this time of year always reminds me in someways of all the years gone by. All the memories I don't even have a picture of to hold in my hand . . . but in an instant one smell can bring them all flooding my thoughts.
Here is to all the years that have gone by. I hope to have a hundred more, so every year I don't have to miss this smell. The smell of baking love that filled my mothers kitchen year after year . . . and now fills mine.
