I guess most of us turned out half decent ... ... do you figger? Even the ones born before the 40s. Actually, in the early 60s, our son and daughter were raised in cloth diapers, except when we were away for a while, travelling, etc. Son was born in Korea and I remember that Sue had quite a time convincing me that I should bathe him! I guess that I was afraid that he might fall in the tub ... and break?! He came with us back to Canada when he was about 20 mos. old ... Sue could have told you whether he was "trained" or not ... but I don't remember. No potty chair ... so I imagine that we'd have had to hold him over the "real McCoy" ... don't remember whether we had a reducer chair to sit over the toilet. He'd just learned to walk unaided by a coffee table, chair, etc. a while before we left and he found the slow movement of the ship's deck under his feet rather unnerving ... or problematic, at least. We had several good laughs out of his attempts to cope with this new thing! Children born here have a "birth certificate", issued by each province, but son, born abroad, has a "Certificate of Citizenship", issued by the federal government, which sometimes causes some concern at borders when people have been accustomed to the other situation. ole joyful

Hahahaha Debbie. I did understand every bit of that post. I think maybe because I have done genealogy in my own family and also my old city clerk job could at times become very disorganized and brain multitasking to the utmost overload. Not to mention I am forever putting some thing in a safe place only to find that place was not so safe. I can not do the cherry nut ice cream except in my dreams but a nice cheese burger patty would have worked for me. LOL Some day this house will be much better organized than it is right now.And it is not bad, honestly. I think I need a book shelf for that safe place everything must go to that does not already have the perfect place I can depend on finding it. This is in my new plan for some day. It is the things that hide from us in plain sight that is so frustrating.

Amylou, I do hope you'll try "pink chocolate" for yourself. I had some "Ruby" brand bars last spring and they were delicious. Slightly fruity but definitely chocolate, is how the taste struck me. Perennialfan, I had rolled ice cream once at a local shop. It was fun watching it be made but for me it's a novelty thing, not worth going out of my way for. For your other question, ice cream bars are good for convenience, either portable or portion-control -- but given a choice I'd take ice cream in a bowl.

I feel that the manufacturers add bulk ('cookie' pieces, etc.) to ice cream to lower their costs. Many brands in big boxes are largely air and sugar. I hadn't realized that Unilever owns Ben & Jerry's and many other brands of ice cream. I remember our first Westie licking the last of a carton of butter pecan ice cream and leaving a tidy pile of pecan pieces in the bottom. He decided those things were 'foreign objects'. I do like nuts. I add a big handful of nut pieces to every box of the Great Grains cereal we alternate with Morning Summit -- and oatmeal (me).