Good Morning, it's Friday - we all made it through another week and this one was chock full of drama - Baby Leona came into the world and I had a very stressful health scare, WOO HOO!!!! All in all I am kinda glad to let this one come to rest - been kinda exhausting to say the least....
Last night I cooked up a storm for my dear friend/new Momma Rachel - we chatted yesterday online and she had just gotten home from the hospital, tired and a little fragile feeling and super HUNGRY.
Boy those pregnancy hormones changing in the days after delivery are hard - the night sweats alone and the breast milk production can really do a number on an already exhausted new Mother. I asked what I could do to help and she said (and I can picture her sweet voice just the way it would have sounded in person) "well we are going to run out of food soon." You need say no more darlin' Auntie Deb is on it.
I went to the grocery store with my list in hand - proteins and treats were my main goal - I smiled at the cute girl I call freckles at FOOD LION as she said to me, "you're here again?" - been there practically every day this week and beginning to think it would save time to just have my checks direct deposited to the FOOD LION corporation...There were chicken chili fixins' on the belt, two pints of Ben & Jerrys, Salad stuffs, Quiche ingredients, banana bread necessities and a myriad of other treats and food accessories - I was fairly pleased with my meal choices - said "I'll see you tomorrow" to freckles and off I went - home to the kitchen.
Brian and I got busy, the sleeves went up and boy did we slice and dice - onions, peppers, chicken cubes, chopped bacon for the quiche, mashed bananas - we were cookin fools and having a great time together - man my son can cook.
When he was little, we always cooked together, he always watched and asked lots of questions, he is a man who knows his way around a mixing bowl, no doubt - he has rich taste buds too and really layers flavors like a pro.
I was a proud and happy Momma and enjoyed having him as my assistant, or wait, maybe it was the other way around...(but don't tell him I admitted that)
At any rate - I assuredly add great cook to the long list of wonderful things he is - love that kid/man with all my heart. Like all teenagers, he did put me through a very specific kind of hell, but he is almost twenty one now and I look forward to drinking a a foamy black and tan with him on his birthday and toasting us both for reaching the milestone fairly unscathed...
I watched him go to work with such enthusiasm yesterday that I think what I was viewing was the passed down familial trait of generosity and appreciation for the art of doing for others.
I learned from my Nana who in my mind, was quite possibly the most generous person I have ever known.
She taught me young - I remember very vividly a six year old me complaining that we had to make the trek to the nursing home to visit her Mother and Father every day over summer vacations - she gently reminded me of how much joy all the elderly folks got from having a pint sized me be-bopping around them. She used a sunshine analogy and said I was theirs, I could surely afford to give up a little of mine...
Love her for teaching me to have a generous heart.
That is one thing I know I am good at and no I am not tooting my own horn.
I love to buy things and do things for others, I love to make people feel special.
I am happy to have this habit - I get way more from it than I give, that I can say for absolute sure.
Rachel is a new Mother and man I know how hard the transition can be from singular to plural - having your body be the vessel of survival for another human being can be very trying - the adjustment is monumental and takes time to ease into - and sometimes ease can feel like a foreign concept for a new Mom - pregnancy can look like a cake walk comparatively. The exhaustion is all encompassing.
One thing she won't have to worry about is food for a few days and that can really be a Godsend when you're too sore to get up out of the bed.
I remember when I got Matthew's diagnosis and had to call my school to tell my 5th grade team that I would not be coming in for a few days, possibly the rest of the school year, that the baby was in real trouble - I will never forget when I opened the front door to my house all puffy eyed and a mess to find my team there, grocery bags in hand to spare me the menial tasks of feeding my family.
I cried like a baby for their thoughtfulness.
It all comes full circle, generosity is a what comes around goes around concept.
Love that, really do, love it...And look in the process of cooking for Rachel, i got great Brian time - a reward in itself - sweet.
Generosity is easy, it just takes a minute or an hour, a day or whatever - it's the easiest thing that a person can do - give.
And with that, I must go shower, get ready to deliver the food and then go off to work for the day.
Today's sentiment is a lot like yesterdays - do something for someone else, I dare you...You'll get a good buzz off it if nothing else and who doesn't love a good generosity buzz?
Peace and love xo
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