Dear Reader,
Reading your emails is the best part of my day. Thanks so much for writing. If you missed yesterday's link to Dino Grandma delivering dessert to her grandchildren, and you're looking for a good laugh, be sure to click here.
From my Inbox:
"Suzanne, what a great way to start my day! Those pictures brought a smile to my face in these days of COVID dreariness. I hope your grandchildren know how LUCKY they are to have you as their grandmother. Stay well." -- Judy
"Suzanne, those pix are PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!" -- Anne
"Hilarious!!! Gave me a good laugh today. (Perfect hat too.)" -- Mary
"I only wish my grandma had been as fun and funny as you. Thanks for the pictures. I can just see you inflating your costume and walking up the street. It gave me a laugh, something we can all use right now. I have to confess that I do not always read the books, but I always read your essays. Thanks again." -- Peggy T.
"SO glad you thought to color coordinate your mask with your dino! You gave me a smile this a.m.! Amazing what we'll do for our grandkids, isn't it?" -- Barb R.
I used to bake with my grandchildren, but now to keep in touch, every weekend I make a dessert and drop it off on their front stoop. This Friday I'll be delivering homemade chocolate cupcakes, decorated like a cat--including the whiskers. I've been using the same recipe for chocolate cupcakes for years and last night, when I was sorting through some of my old journals, I found a page where my grandson Paul (who was four years old at the time), in his words, recited the "recipe" for making our chocolate cupcakes.
Four-year-old, Paul Beecher's recipe for Chocolate Cupcakes:
"We need flour. We need butter and we need frosting and vanilla, eggs, sugar. And we need chocolate chips. Put butter and sugar in the mixer. Put the flour in one bowl. Baking soda and salt.
We need brown sugar inside the mixer. Mix the flour, baking soda and salt together. Put vanilla in mixer. Eggs, crack them in a bowl. Put them inside the mixer. Put flour in mixer. Turn the mixer up so it go fast.
Put the liners in the pan. Put chocolate inside the papers. Put the liners inside the holes in the pan. Grandma puts the pan in the oven. Grandma washes dishes.
When the timer rings, stick a toothpick in. If it's soft, it needs more in the oven. Timer rings again. Toothpick again. It done.
Grandma takes out of the oven. Then we let them cool. When them a little cool, take them out of the pan. When them real cool, frost them. Sprinkles.
We bring to somebody else."
I was amazed that my grandson remembered the recipe, and that even at four years old, he seemed to understand one of the most important ingredients--love. Giving the best of yourself and baking something wonderful to share, or in Paul's words, "We bring to somebody else."
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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