A Wildflower Morning

To start the morning out, I was banished from our home.  The kids were working on a surprise, and they didn't even allow me to be in my bedroom to wait.  So, I went to garage sales (there aren't many on a Mother's Day morning, but I scouted them out anyway), I bought gas, and went back home.  They said they weren't done yet, only 10 more minutes though.  So Rob took me on a 20 minute walk.  They weren't done when we got back, so they sent me to my room this time (am I in "time-out"), and around 30 minutes later I was finally called for breakfast.   Ok, it was  worth it, waiting for breakfast until 10:30 A.M. this morning.  My kids made a gourmet meal for me, nicer then the finest restaurant around, and there is not chance of me getting "glutened' here. My plate looked like a serving platter itself.  They made Baked Hashbrowns in a heart shaped pan, and then filled the center with my favorite recipe of scrambled tofu, garnished wit...

 Just after we sat down to eat my daughter's birthday breakfast, potatoes and tofu, I was informed that there was a burner that was really smoking, really black stinky smoke. I lept into the kitchen and found that my nice stainless steel spatula had somehow fallen on a burner, that somehow hadn't gotten turned off. The black plastic handle was melting really good. I carried it straight outside, then opened every door in the house. Everyone took their breakfast to eat else where. It took about an hour for the air to clear out enough for us to come back to that part of the house. So much on getting an early start on preparing for Thanksgiving, instead my room got cleaned. Thankfully, everything else went better today, and the weather was really nice after days of wind and rain. The pies are in the oven, the entree is already baked. The windows are washed. I am looking forward to a wonderful day tomorrow. And my daughter did have a nice birthday, even th...