Thursday, August 20, 2009

Banana sandwiches


We have had about 2 weeks of flu at our house - Jake first, Afton 7 days later, and I came down with it late last night. I'm sure you'll understand when I say I am too tired and achy to lay down any more.


Afton and Jake have had a few more luxuries than normal...sure you can have that rice crispy treat for breakfast...it does, after all, have cereal mixed in. For lunch I got up long enough to warm up macaroni and cheese and threw on a roll and half banana to make it look more like a healthy meal. After a few minutes of eating, Jake informed me that he "smushed" his banana into the middle of his roll and ate it that way.


I am still grinning because my sister and I used to pride ourselves in our invention of "Banana Sandwiches". She put butter on hers. Mine involved fork-squashed banana on a slice of bread. From sandwiches, my banana fixation migrated into almost daily banana shakes - you got it - milk mixed with 1 banana.


Good to know that the banana-creativity-gene is still flowing strong!

3 comments:

Lori said...

Yeah! The tradition continues! I made a peanut butter and banana sandwich for Sage last week. She approved!

Stephanie said...

I am sorry you are sick! Let me know if I can help out! btw, I love banana and peanut butter sandwiches. One of my comps on my mission made it for me and it was yummy! In fact I just might go make one - haven't had one in forever.

The Fowers said...

I agree, peanut butter needed!


Quick thoughts

So I'm finally up with the times and have my own blog. You'd think if someone was a "webmaster" that they might be current with a full family history...

Now I'm frantically searching my mind for all those clever things my kids did and all those life changing thoughts that would really help all who read my little blog. Nothing.

Just two quick stories about both kids. Maybe then I can feel at ease knowing that my children's lives are adequately documented.

Jake has always been interested in numbers. He loves to ask random people (fellow shoppers at Wal-Mart, those who happen to stop next to us at a red light, etc) what their address is. Finally Jake discovered his life calling when we went through the Wal-Greens drive thru to pick up a prescription. Jake decided he would like to be the teller asking people for their address to verify their getting the correct prescription. We are in the process of getting him a store job application right now.

Afton has profound moments when I realize just how fast she is growing up. This week she saw a little girl walking with just her mom. She pointed at the little girl and said "Ohhh, that little girl doesn't have a brother." Let's just hope she always appreciates that she has a big brother!