Soup's On!
My bedroom is sort of a time warp. It's filled with antiques: personal and acquired, as well as a couple of reproduction pieces that are authentic enough to make me feel good. I've even kept the photos in the room to old black and whites to further enhance the feeling of stepping back in time. Two such photos frame my bed. Studio portraits of me and one of my husband around 1.5 to 2 years of age. The other morning my GrandDoll, Sloane, and I were having a particularly lazy awakening and she was asking questions about these two pictures....and commenting on how CUTE we both were. It's true. We were adorable! (Emphasis on past-tense!) She was asking about which of my kids looked like each photo. Having answered it a bunch of times, I rattled it off. "Well, Bubba looks just like PawPaw did. And Bean looks just like ME. And your mama and Jacob are a good mixture of both." That whole MIXTURE thing sort of baffled her. So we began a discussion of genetics. Do...