Dinner!

After a long hard week and a busy Saturday I tried to just rest as much as I could today on Sunday to be recharged for a new week. I was half sleeping on the chair in the living room for a couple of hours this afternoon in between doing half a dozen other things and my eldest daughter comes up and tells me that I don't need to get up because she's going to make dinner for me. I told her what a sweet idea that was and how sweet she is to think of something like this (although to be totally honest, and with guilt I tell you this, I cringed inside just a teeny bit). Then she checked the time and decided it wasn't quite late enough yet so she and her sister went outside for a bit yet and I thought she maybe would forget. No, she came in and told me that I could not come downstairs because she wanted to surprise me. So I told her that I would stay upstairs til she called.

I could hear her downstairs telling Bee how she could help. She washed something and I could hear her instructing Bee on the art of drying it. I didn't know at the time what it was, but found out later it was the green plate*. I then heard her telling Bee that if she threw the orange peelings away she would tell mom that she helped too. At one point I heard something fall on the floor and she says, "Don't worry, that was not one of your sharp knives." She worked in the kitchen for over a half hour and I was seriously very curious to see her creation. Every once in a while she will do this and I love when she does and she knows that I love and appreciate it, which makes her want to do it for me. She has such a sweet heart.

When she was done she came up and escorted me down. I was so excited to see and she was so proud to present to me -

My dinner!

All beautifully arranged. On the most special 'dinner plate*' she could find, in the middle is a peanut butter/jelly sandwich on my choice of bread topped by a kiss, encircled by cantaloupe cut up by her with my very sharp Cut Co knives, decorated on the outer edge with scallops of cutie oranges. She was going to have an apple in here somewhere but I could hear that she could not find the apple cutter.

In the other dishes are, on the left and labeled by her, "Carrits with Rach Not a saldid" and on the right "Carrit salid." On the top right in a very special cup she found and washed is lemon water.

Also, when she was done preparing the area she had prepared in was all clean, there was no left over mess. As she was working I heard her telling G that she is cleaning up as she makes it, because, "When you bake you clean up, that's just the way it is."

What a special way to end my weekend.

*A very precious plate that was given by mom to aunt Elaine, which was then given to me. :-)