WOW! What a very long day today! We were busy busy driving from one place to the next all day, but we had a lot of fun along the way!
I started off my morning taking Joel to school and getting a babysitter so I could go and visit my grandmother in Anaheim. She is 89 years old and isn't awake too much these days. I can't see her often because of the two kiddos and nap times and school and everything else going on, so it was such a treat to spend a couple of hours with her today! Such a happy moment eating lunch with her AND she loved the Bran Muffins I made from scratch this morning...she doesn't eat very much so I brought her two and she had em with a big glass of milk...YEA! We got to catch up because I haven't seen her since Joel started Kindergarten. It was nice to tell her stories about that and also share with her about my tonsil surgery. She shared a neat story with me about herself when she was a little girl and got her tonsils out. It was a happy memory for her and made her smile, and now it can be MY happy memory written here that I can look back and read and enjoy! When she was about 6 or 7 she had her tonsils out. She remembers dancing around her kitchen table while her father was sitting, eating breakfast. She said she was so excited to get to go to the hospital and her father kept laughing at her saying "I don't think you are going to be this happy or excited after you have your tonsils out Jo" That made us both laugh and I am so happy my grandmother shared that precious memory with me! I don't have very much time left with her (although she has been saying she is dying since she was 60 and here we are almost 30 years later lol) I am grateful for any happy times we spend together!
Ok now back to those bran muffins! For most of my adult life, I have been terrified about baking bran muffins. Maybe it was the fact I thought you had to do something special to create bran, or the one's at Mimi's Cafe are just so beyond fabulous I was afraid to fail miserably. Either way, this day has been a long time coming! I got the recipe off of Weight Watcher's online and took out the raisins and added some honey in the middle of the muffins. They were so good! What a happy moment to share with my kids, my grandma, and my husband today as we all tried them out and enjoyed them together! The fact that they are SUPER healthy for you is just one more happy thought! I love baking and cooking and I am so glad I had my grandmother and my mom to teach me the basics when I was little!
One more happy thought for the day: Connor is so sweet with his babysitter. He has her wrapped around his little finger when it comes to watching DVDs, or DDDs as he calls them. Whenever he wants a new one he goes up to the DVD holder, points and says "UMMM" then she gets up, begins the ritual of showing him almost EVERY DVD as he says "NOOOO" going from low to high pitch on that "no" there, and then when she gets back to the FIRST DVD she showed Connor he replies with a big smile "YEAH!!!" It makes me laugh every time!
Well I hope everyone had a happy Monday! May happy a happy thought be your every thought!
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