What Happens When We Forget Things...

So...

 a   couple   of    weeks   ago

I   needed   to   bake   some  cookies.....

for  a  church   potluck  and  to send

on  the church  bus   that   picks up

children   for   Sunday School.

  I  wanted   to use  a  chocolate chip recipe...

not just your usual one...

but one where one of the ingredients is:

INSTANT  pudding.

Me...being forgetful  person that I am...

forgot the pudding and chocolate chips

while out on that Saturday afternoon.

TechoGuy was home and was headed into town...

so I asked him if  could pick up these 2  items for me...

He said: Ya, sure.

I wrote down the  2 items: chocolate chips and instant vanilla pudding...

I said: make SURE the pudding is INSTANT.

Hours later....

TechoGuy  returns with my items...

I look in the bag and remove them....

Chocolate chips...Check

Pudding....looking carefully at the box...it reads:  COOK and Serve....

WHAT !!!

Running to find TechnoGuy (who is outside)...

I say...you got the wrong kind of pudding...

He says..."well Mom  its the only kind I could find"...

I am now panicking...

cause I have cookies to bake and its 9:30 on a Saturday night!

So....me being upset....

now I know most of you never do this....

but I race to my van, jump in and head to the store myself !

(I even forgot my cell phone ).

I get to the store....walk in....

past the long stemmed flowers and potted plants....

looking and stiffing as I go by...

but wait...there is one of my favorite kinds of flowers...

carnations....potted ones...the spicy smelling purple ones...

then thinking to myself....I came to get INSTANT pudding...

so off I go to get that pudding,

then returning to the plants,

I grab up the lovely smelling carnation plant...

Off the the checkout,

then home.

I walk in the house carrying my wonderful new plant.

My nine year old is standing there...

I ask him where his Dad is...

My son then says...are the flowers for Dad....I laugh a little then head off to the kitchen.

You see my dear husband had been a little grumpy earlier...

So....now present time:

I now tell my husband that I did buy the flowers for him...

BTW...

that night I was up until 11:30 baking cookies.

If anyone wants the recipe I will share that later.

Here is a picture of my lovely flowers....

still blooming and smelling very good.

Love to All,

Mommy 2