With all of the foodie blogs out there, sometimes I get full just looking at the internet. With deliciousness in mind this week, I thought I'd suggest something a little different. The prompt is: recipe. Do with it what you will!
My Scattered Mind
(results and ingredients will vary. This is a good, basic recipe)
For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients.
1 - redheaded boy with a social skill problem
1 - 11 year old girl with braces, zits, hormones and low blood sugar
1 - 9 year old boy with the attention span of a fly
1 - tired husband, who is no longer afforded the luxury of overtime, unless authorized
3 - churches: one for the family; one for the daughter; one for the boys
5 - personalities
1 1/2 bible studies: one you could only attend in the fall; one you can attend regularly
2 - semesters of college; more if needed
5 gallons/yards/gross of music, homework and chores
a dash of dreams
a pinch of crabbiness, PTA, anxiety
guilt
imagination
hope
love
faith
Preheat the summer air in Chicago to 90 to 100 degrees F. Add moisture, if the atmosphere is not saturated already.
Add first four ingredients and let them go. Either tread carefully around them or step out of their way.
Stir in churches, personalities. Simmer gently. Carefully add Bible studies and then college. If you reverse the order, the husband will fly off the handle and you will have a mess on your hands.
Transfer into the music. Stir often so that practicing, chores and homework do not get mushy or stick together.
Add the dreams, along with the crabbiness, PTA and anxiety. Be careful that you don't add too much PTA because it can overwhelm the recipe.
Sprinkle with guilt liberally; in this recipe, there is never enough.
It is easy to walk away from this recipe because it takes a long time until it is done. In fact, it takes a lifetime. While you are stirring, add imagination, love, hope and faith; without them, the stirring is useless and your results will be ruined.
Best served on a cold November day with hot chocolate, blankets and the Three Stooges on Saturday night.
For more creative entries, please go to Sunday Scribblings
4 comments:
What does this have to do with a scattered mind? Oh well...
Oh my. We are down to 2 churches, both kids in college, and a bit calmer life. I work full time but it's in a school so summer is well, time off "work" to catch up with everything neglected throughout the school year. A recipe for just moving through the day and falling into bed at night only to start it all again in the morning is more what this all sounds like wink wink :)
That was quite the recipe - took it all in. Nicely done.
Well done!!! Very creative recipe! As for guilt there is ALWAYS too much of that....can overwhelm the recipe at times!!!
Peace Giggles
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