Breakfast in bed anyone?

It is Sunday morning- The Lord’s Day as it has often been called in times past. Cold, rainy and gray makes me want to stay under the covers indefinitely. The red poinsettias are a lovely contrast to the somber weather.  Some days I wish there were no requirements to do anything like work, exercise, avoid eating chocolate and other fattening things. Why can’t all the yummy stuff besides collard greens be really fantastic for our health? As a child breakfast was either a chocolate donut, chocolate Tandy cakes or on school days it was either Tang instant fake orange juice sugar filled look alike and Chocolate Instant Breakfast mixed with cow’s milk. I honestly cannot recall an adult ever making breakfast for me. It just wasn’t part of life. Maybe it happened occasionally since I knew what an egg was and liked them soft boiled but I don’t recall them at breakfast time of day. Adults were always in bed when I was up in the morning.

Eating breakfast with others is an amazing beautiful feat. I think one of the greatest ways to demonstrate love to those most special in your life, especially children is bringing them breakfast in bed on a tray. Pretend you are a fine bed and breakfast and they are the honored guest. This creates memories and love and I wish I’d done it more for those I love. Sometimes when alone I arise and go prepare breakfast on a tray and bring it back to my bed…then I feel like a queen and revel in eating under the warm covers. I remember when I had my first child it happened to be in a Seventh Day Adventist hospital. I was impressed with the healthy delicious breakfast they brought for me that included hot tea. How can one grow up in America among coffee drinkers and not acquire the habit? Everyone drank coffee but it was an adult drink. Coffee might have been better for me than the Coke I drank which with the sweets definitely damaged my teeth. I’ve never been a coffee drinker which is one of life’s mysteries but hot herbal or Yerba Matte tea on a cold morning is a great comfort.