I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirl under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Nate, this post's for you...

I don't know if Anthony was bored, from being home all day, and feeling domestic or if he really was just that hungry. When I got home, from Tiffany's house, at 5 o'clock today, my nose was treated to wonderful smells coming from the kitchen! My first words were, 'What is Daddy doing?' When I came around the corner I was a little confused. I thought that he was just chopping potatoes but once I got closer I saw the corn boiling, the pressure cooker being filled for mashed potatoes and when I went to grab the pork chops out of the fridge, they were gone. I asked him where they were and he said, 'they're in the microwave.' My first thought was, 'oh no, he cooked them in the microwave.' But I was wrong. He had shake and baked 'um and cooked them in the oven. They were staying warm in the microwave! I couldn't believe it. So... I didn't say a word. I just let him do it, and enjoyed my night off from cooking!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Way to go Anthony!!! Two enthusiastic thumbs up! ~Cindy

Tiffany said...

That is sooo great! Good for you Chelsey, you deserve it! Wasn't it fabulous just to sit down and eat?

Always, Forever, NO MATTER WHAT said...

What a great suprise!!! Way to Little Brother ; )

JustLivingMYLife said...

awh that is so cute! i have yet to be welcomed home by that yet