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Show L' By CAROL LEMON Jj sit up in a chair most nights -but in the delivery room when the Doctor announced to Larry and me they WERE twins, and there WAS a boy and a girl, I forgot the mis-I mis-I erable part and we were thrilled. They were big babies for twins, Mark weighed 7 lbs. 7oz.,Maradie weighed 6 lbs. 6 oz." "When we came home from the hospital everyone was waiting to greet us at Dad's station. The babies were passed around and got kisses and hugs from every -' body. i don't know what I'd have done without Mom, Dad and the family. Larry was called away to work for the first few months, and they were really a big help to me." "Right from the start we decided that rather than doing do-ing each child feeding, changing, etc., whenever they woke up, we'd do everything every-thing at the same time. Miraculously Mark began sleeping through the night at three weeks, Maradie waited till six weeks." "Travis, their older brother, loves them both, and they really ahve a rough and tumble time. He often says to other new mothers, "We got two new babies, you only got one, how come?" Maradie and Mark celebrated cele-brated their first birthday last month. They are really active and climb into, onto, over and under everything. Maradie loves to hug and kiss her brothers and rock her dolly to sleep. Mark likes playing ball and they I - "" I ' ere arent many people aiound who don't love and enjoy young children. Raisin Rais-in a family seems like a hassle at times, but later He memories of that growing tip time are more precious than most others. Rita and Larry Hugh, Minersville, have the honor of being parents of Travis, age 3-12, and twins Maradie and Mark, and I thought you'd enjoy visiting with a mother tio has double the trouble ami double the fun. "There are twins on both sides of 0 family," said Rita. ' iij knew I was going to have twins almost from the begin- 1 jijg, I told the family and even the Doctor so, but none of them believed me. I also ' jeit we'd have a girl and a hoy. Each time I had a Doctor appointment I'd say "Are you sure there arent two?" Finally Fi-nally one Doctor said he thought there might be but a month later another Doctor said No, he was sure there was just one. "I'm not leaving this office until you X-ray and find out," I said. So they did and sure enough there were two. Mother was with me and saw the X-ray she was thrilled." Grandmas and Grandpas, by the way, are Dan and Eva Davis, Minersville, and Mr. and Mrs. Les Hugh, Kanab. "Larry was really excited about the prospect of having twins. We fixed up two dressers one for a boy and one for a girl, and filled fill-ed them with girl's and boy's clothing, I must admit the last month or so was rough. I couldn't sleep had to Bea Oxley BPW Woman of Year. - -JP h - i ta r j i K ' It '... s. v " 1 at t i v " ' . " ; '1 n ' f ' . J is "Hang On!" Travis Hugh tells twins, Maradie and Mark. all love wrestling. "We have their cribs at right angles to each other and as they play or chatter back and forth and giggle, you'd swear they were telling tell-ing the best jokes." "It's fun to look forward to their growing up years. This year has flown by -I sometimes regret not having hav-ing them stay tiny a little longer, but then, that's not the plan of life. Even now their individual personalities person-alities are blossoming, they like different things and have different moods two separate sep-arate and distinct individuals." in-dividuals." "We've really enjoyed and loved them. Who knows, maybe next time, Travis, Maradie and Mark will have another set of twin brothers or sisters if so, we'd welcome them right along with the rest. Being the parents of twins is sometimes some-times hectic, but we wouldn't trade it for anything in the world!" $$$$$ Rita sent along a family favorite Cream Puff recipe. It sounds delicious. SHELL: 1 C water 12 C butter 1 C flour 4 eggs Bring water and butter to boil. Add flour , stir till forms a ball. Remove from heat and beat in eggs. Drop 14 C 3 inches apart on ungreased sheet. Bake at 400 for; 35 to 40 minutes. Cut off tops. Makes 12 Puffs. FILLING: 34 C sugar 3 T cornstarch 14 t. salt 3 egg yolks beaten 34 C water 1 T butter 1 T grated lemon peel 13 C lemon juice 1 C cream whipped 1-12 T. sugar 12 t. vanilla Mix 34 C sugar, cornstarch, salt. Mix yolks and water and gradually add to sugar mix. Cook till thickened and boils one minute. Remove from heat. Add butter, juice and peel, cool. Whip cream with sugar and vanilla, fold into mixture. mix-ture. Spoon into shells. Replace Re-place tops; Chill. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serves 12. |