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Today's Mama Kat Thursday is a selection of my favorite posts from 2015; one from each day's category! Now's your chance to go back and re-read any you missed! Best of Good Eating Monday recipes: Italian Cream Cake By far, the best, easiest, most delicious cake for serving a crowd I've made this year! Best of Garden Pic Wednesday: Amazing 4 O'Clocks Also called the "Marvel of Peru," I was amazed to discover that, here in the Deep South, this heirloom flower that's normally an annual, is perennial and has been coming back every spring from thick, bulbous roots.  Best of Mama Kat Thursday: Dream Jobs The various "dream" careers I considered as a kid. Best of Friday Finds: Things To Do With Old Christmas Cards Several crafty ideas for putting them to use or an address to mail front covers to St. Jude's Children's Ranch for them to be re-purposed for you for charity! ...

Today's Mama Kat blog writing prompt topic is, "Share something you wanted to be when you grew up." I graduated in 1975.  That means my growing-up years were the 50's, 60's and early 70's.  Career option considerations for women back then were a little bit different then they are now. There were no personal computers, no smart phones and the employment opportunities for women beyond being a school teacher, a nurse, a secretary or a factor production worker were still in their early days of expansion. Dr. Saddler & Dr. Grant (Laura Dern & Sam Neill) with a Triceratops in Jurassic Park 1.  I had 2 career ambitions while growing up: First, like most grade school kids looking at a few dinosaur pictures, I wanted to be an archaeologist.  Then I learned how painstakingly exacting and boring digging for buried history actually was and lost interest. I realized I didn't have the patience. Roy Desoto (Kevin Tighe) & Johnny Gage ...