March 6 , 2025 The Beacon • 35
Mom took care of us well during cold , flu season
This current cold and flu season makes me remember what it was like as a child to be sick and how Mum took care of us .
Her high school home economics at Monmouth Academy was much more comprehensive than cooking and sewing . It included planning a bridal shower , a wedding trousseau , designing a home , wallpapering , budgeting and home health care .
She always wanted to be a nurse because of that last section of her training . However , when she graduated in 1939 , she was already engaged to Daddy . That eliminated her from taking nurse ’ s training because getting married would mean starting a family and being home to raise her children . So her training would be wasted . You feel bad about that , and nowadays it would be called discrimination .
But you got me instead , as well as my brother and sister . Besides , Mum faithfully used all her training in designing our kitchen remodeling , planning “ parties ” all the time for family , making our clothes ,
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meal preparation , canning and freezing , and nursing us when we were sick .
Giving us medicine for a cold is not something Mum did , at least in my memory . First of all , we got to stay home from school . For breakfast Mum fixed us a soft-boiled egg and a piece of toast cut into pieces . That was the only time we had soft-boiled eggs .
She bought a bottle of soda at Bernard ’ s Market up the street . The brand name was Cott , and the flavor was raspberry . We also could have soda crackers . Our other treat was to have rainbow sherbet . My brother was sick a lot !
We were in bed all day , napping or reading . Mum felt if we were sick enough to stay home from school , we had to be in bed . I may have read one of Grammie Scott ’ s Grace Livingston Hill
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books , whose villain was often named Dana . We only had one television set , which was downstairs in the living room . For years its screen was black and white .
Because we lived across the road from Farrington Elementary School , we could hear the other kids playing outside during recess . It ’ s strange , but my memory says we were only home one or two days for a cold .
Mum had a special way to treat a chest cold . Maybe your mother did the same thing . She had made a big flannel two-layer bib with a tie that fastened it to the back of our necks . Glenn and I have the one Mum made us , which is in a drawer somewhere , maybe at the end of the hallway .
When we were children , Mum put the flannel bib on a radiator to get it nice and warm , almost hot . She slathered our chests with Vicks VapoRub , then fastened the warm bib around our necks , under our pajamas .
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