Every Sunday we get up early and the first thing we do is make breakfast. It usually always includes eggs, toast, bacon, sausage, homefries, sometimes homemade waffles and fruit or sometimes we make french toast or breakfast pizza but it always includes a ton of food. Michael your face lights up as you ramble off the menu you want for breafast and you always want to help make the juice or stir the waffle batter or crack the eggs, you enjoy making the food almost as much as you enjoy eating it! And Nicholas, you always have your plate and cup in hand before I even start to cook...it's like you know if you have your plate out then mommy will make you something delicious. We sit around the table, our little family, and we talk about what to do and how to spend our Sunday together...church, outside yard work, maybe a trip to home depot or grocery shopping, or do we have a birthday party to go to or a baptism or a picninc, we sit around our table together and we share not only a meal but memories. It amazes me how much food the two of you can eat, there is usually no waste and you yum yum yum the whole time eating. I'm really not a breakfast person, I could do without the eggs and meat and waffles and have a simple bagel or fruit and a coffee but I know how much my boys (including daddy) enjoy and look forward to A BIG SUNDAY BREAKFAST and I enjoy cooking and I enjoy spending the time with my family, making and eating breakfast together, so through the past few years I have come to love our Sunday breakfasts, I love being able to fill your tummies with good food, I love to see your excitement and enjoyment over the food I make, I love the time we spend together making and enjoying a meal. I recently realized that without even trying or planning we have started our own traditions, Sunday Breakfast, it will be something you will enjoy for years to come and look back on one day as a tradition and memory you enjoyed as a child. But our Sunday traditions don't stop at breakfast time, we usually make a big dinner too.....homemade stuffed shells, sauce and meatballs (we enjoy the smell all day) or stuffed peppers, or lasagna or breaded chicken or a bbq cookout with the works grilled chicken, corn on the cob, baked beans, fruit or chili and cornbread or roastbeef carved and sliced over bread and topped with cheese....just to name a few of our favorites. And again we find ourselves together, gathered at our table enjoying a delicious home cooked meal together and we laugh and talk about our day and what fun adventures we had or how much house or yard work we accomplished (and how much more we have to do). It seems like our Sundays are filled with food but really it's filled with family,love, and memories in the making....we are feeding so much more than ourselves, we are feeding our hearts and souls! I really believe in a family eating together (which we do every night, and I dread the day when school or sports will come in the way of that)I think it's so important to eat and cook a well balanced home cooked meal for my family, I find it important and necessary to eat together, to talk and share our day and to just be together and enjoy each other.
I enjoy cooking and I feel a great accomplishment to see you enjoying the foods I make for you. I enjoy us all putting on our aprons and cooking together. I enjoy teaching you Michael how to crack the eggs or add a pich of salt or stir and you love to learn my recipies and ask what else to add and you have so much pride in your work, you seem to enjoy the food even more when you helped to make it and really you are a great big help and a pretty darn good chef too! Nicholas you have a little red apron too and you love to pull out all the bowls and measuring cups and spoons and "cook" too! I'm so glad you both like to eat so much because I really like cooking big meals for you and it helps to see my effort and time and work is appreciated and enjoyed.
I love the traditions and the memories we are making......I love feeding your minds and souls and hearts with happiness and love and laughs. I love our Sunday breakfasts. And I love you both more than you'll ever know, to the moon and back!
