From My Heart To Yours

Recently, my grandson, Ben, and I shared a cupcake baking session.  It was a simple thing.  I had purchased some little silicone baking cups that stood on a pedestal of funny, big feet.  I thought Ben would like them.  So, when I stopped at the store, I picked up a little Jiffy yellow cake mix and a tub of prepared frosting and, of course, sugar sprinkles.

That evening, I asked Ben if he wanted to bake some cupcakes.  He was immediately engaged with the idea and we excitedly gathered the mixing bowl, the mixer, the eggs and utensils.  We whipped up those babies in no time and put them in the oven.  When they were finished baking, it took a looooooooog time for them to cool (at least to Ben’s sense of time).  They came out with funny big lumps on the top (too much batter for the cup)…but I frosted them and Ben “sprinkled” them.  They were really awesome!…(again, Ben’s version).  They were just OK…certainly, not gourmet…but they were sweet and cute…so we ate ‘em.

The thing that tickled me the most (besides watching Ben’s excitement) was that at one point in the process, after Ben had “tasted” the frosting…he asked me if I could just put some of that frosting in a bowl so he could eat it with a spoon.  Gross!  Makes me sick just thinking about it…but not Ben!  He recently helped himself to a half of a stick of softened margarine….eeeewwww!  (I think his Grammy used to really like margarine, too!)  Of course, the bowl of frosting request was denied…but I like his “vision”.  There is a boy who has an idea about getting down to what’s important!  What good is a cupcake without the frosting!

So…in conclusion…I just want to say…if life is like a cupcake…Ben is “frosting” to me!

HAPPINESS!