Wednesday, March 3, 2010

I have reached a new stage of life....

So today Lillie started out a sentence with the words "Mom, when you're an old lady..." I was like whoa, what?!? Then it got funny. She said "Mom, when you're an old lady and you're trimming my finger nails you're going to cut my skin." "Why?", I ask. "It won't be on purpose. Old people are just shaky. It won't be your fault."
Where do they come up with this stuff?

Get out your metal detectors...

So our friends had us over for dinner and it was fabulous so I wanted to make them a loaf of banana bread to say thank you. I delivered the bread and about an hour later I got a call:
"Audrey, I'm eating your bread right now and it's very good. But I have something to tell you and I don't want you to be embarassed." "Oh crap" is the phrase that goes through my head.
Me: "Okaaaay.... what is it?"
Kethy: "We got about halfway through the loaf and we reached something hard."
Me: "What?!? What is it?"
Kethy: "We dug all around it and found..... a measuring spoon!"
So, Samuel is my little sous chef and I remembered that he had been mixing the flour mixture with this little metal measuring spoon. I guess he must have let it fall down and it got covered up by everything else. What I am amazed by is that in all the mixing and pouring into the pan I never discovered it! And out of both loaves she happened to get the spoon. All I can say is that I'm glad it was the spoon because when she said "something hard" I was prepared for the worst! This was not so much embarassing as hilarious. Needless to say, when Samuel and I bake I watch those spoons like a hawk!