I'm beaming.
It's because I'm a mom, and do you know how I know? (besides the obvious presence of birth child, and pants that don't fit the same.) Because I do weird and wonderful things with vegetables and soar on cloud nine afterward.
Greta LOVES pasta, particularly mac & cheese (sound like anyone you know?) but I refuse to have a child who eats only mac & cheese, so here is where the weird and wonderful comes in...
Monday night I made a home made Mac and snuck in shredded carrots and fresh things like herbs to add extra flavor (so she doesn't turn out to be a boring eater) and health (so she can live to eat another day.) I smiled and felt the satisfaction that life change brings:)
Then today as I was padding around the kitchen trying to avoid the mac & cheese box thinking something else would be better/healthier for our lunch but only wanting the mac & cheese box, I quietly relented but on my terms...
Voila! I give you Organic White Cheddar Florentine!A little garlic and chopped spinach and I called it Florentine. Greta loved it! I loved that she loved it! And again I felt satisfied that in this exact moment I was not just a lowercase mom (a mom by fact of nature) but a capital M Mom, one who rises to occasions and loves her children through things like vegetables!
A good afternoon.
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What a great mama you are and I can see that Greta agrees!
Love you,
Mom
Yum! I want some!!
Raising a child is a series of small liberations and revelations. Add to that: inventions!
Sounds delicious! Way to go MOM :) Also that is the most beautiful picture!
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