Wednesday, July 8, 2009

"Warning Label" on Cookies and Pool Time

Don't these oatmeal cookies look delicious?  Oh, and they smelled even more so.  My daughter decided to make cookies while I showered and got ready for the day.  We woulda totally sold our home today...if it was for sale and prospective buyers were walking through.  She didn't just make a little either...the final count was 65.  Everyone was drooling over the aroma, we quickly ran downstairs, then our (two sons and myself) taste buds unanimously cried out, "What dat mean?" as we read the warning sign.
Forgive my daughter's grammar.  But, to forbid eating a cookie.  Now, that is unforgivable.  I wasn't completely ready so I sadly marched on up to finish the process. When I came down, I saw a new sign that gave me a good chuckle.  Apparently, I wasn't the only one  with warm oatmeal cookies on their mind and feeling the torture of the ominous sign. 
After, I was completely ready, I questioned the sign.  Really?  Come on now?  Was that serious?  My daughter quickly explained that she had calculated how many each of us was going to get.  She was gonna make a cookie bag for each of us (with 13 cookies).  My taste buds smiled once more and could almost taste the yummy oatmeal, cinnamon, butter and sugar.  YUM! :)  In the mean time, the youngest and myself needed an outlet.  We decided to go swimming.  Yeah, I know, I just got myself ready.
Here my little one is showing me his dead man float and below his hand stand. 
I wore a two piece for the first time this summer and I was happy that my exercise routine was beginning to prove itself helpful.  But, the Lord must have sensed some pride, and to keep it real he used my little one.  How?  Picture this.
My little one quietly said in a sympathetic tone, "You're just a little fat.  Huh, mom?"  and to keep me real humble, he added, "Those are birth marks.  Huh, mom?" He was referring to my stretch marks.  I had to laugh, because he meant no harm, and they most certainly were birth marks.  Kids say the darnest things!  I quickly joined him in the pool.  We enjoyed the pool and played some pool games.  We were also visited by two majestic hawks that were suspended in air right above us.  They were beautiful, huge and their under bellies had the most beautiful pattern of white, black, grey and brown.  The pattern almost looked like hieroglyphics.  When the wind ceased, they continued on their flight and we continued with our water fun.   When we came inside, we found a cookie bag for each of us with our names on it.  They were soooo, good :)

1 comment:

angie said...

Boy o Boy, those cookies look good. Especially I just have my coffee going and it would be great to have some of those with my coffee.
Don't you just love those warning labels?! Only if they would pay attention to our warning labels :)