There are a zillion things I need to be doing right now such as working, returning emails, TAXES! LOL! But I needed to blog so here it is!
Feeling domestic this morning I had planned on making banana bread. I was pretty sure I had all the ingredients so after a few quick errands this morning I went to it. I start to it and pretty quickly realize that this must be divine banana bread-- I had just enough flour, just enough sugar, and just enough oil to pull off the recipe. It takes lots of stirring and lots of muscle to pull it all together so as I am stirring away my mind starting drifting back to the days of yester-year. No too far back... just the newly married years. Remember those?
For me that time is only a mere 8 years ago so I am not travelling too far back but when I think about me then and me now-- well it might as well have been centuries ago! I remember lounging on the couch in our first apartment. Duane was a Chick-fil-A owner by this point and we had our first store in Beaumont, Texas. It was located inside a mall so his hours were a little different. The mall didn't open officially until 10 AM so I would leisurely get up, relax on the couch, eventually get ready for work, etc. Ahhh.... I also baked and cooked a lot more (may seem odd but it's true!). As I was laying around on the couch I would flip through channels like the Food Network and TLC. I would go online and search for the recipe that the Barefoot Contessa was making and plan it for dinner. I would watch a Baby Story or two on TLC and dream about having a baby someday... when we were ready (such a silly phrase right-- who is every ready?!)
In the middle of my daydream into yester-year, I was flung back into reality when Mason began throwing Tupperware on the ground and emptying his sippy cup drawer onto the ground for the fourth time today. BANG! BANG! PLOP! So, I chuckled a bit. WOW Erica that was your life and in 8 short years it looks very different! And not just a little different... astronomically different! Is it better? Is it worse? I don't think that you can even compare one to the other and I bet most moms would say the same thing. I've traded TLC's Baby Story for two amazing kids with sticky hands, screaming voices, and runny noses. I've traded a small, quaint apartment for a beautiful home with LOTS of bathrooms to clean and a yard to maintain. I've traded Food Network for "It's Whatever You Find In The Fridge" Nights or "I'll have Daddy bring home CFA... again" :)
After the Tupperware fiasco I put Mason down for his afternoon nap, put the banana bread in the oven, and just for kicks I turned on the TV. Calliou came blaring from the TV as I went searching for TLC. It took me 5 minutes to even find it (it use to be on speed dial) and wouldn't you know... a Baby Story was on.
