“Mommy I don't feel well. My throat hurts.”
My brain shouted NO even as my heart felt tons of sympathy for my daughter. I could tell she was coming down with the cold my husband and I are both also fighting. It is the end of the school year, I thought, and I don't have time for this. Fast forward an hour. I am in the kitchen trying to get some food into her before dragging her to school. “Hurry up… hurry,” I call to her. She says to me, “Mommy I feel like my body is on high alert, and it’s giving me a tummy ache.” The good news is that after the anxiety filled year she has had she can now recognize when she is getting stressed. The bad news, of course, is that I am currently the one making her that way. I take a breath and tell myself that the end of the school year is upon us- why not get started right away? While she has her class party I run to the store and grab some popsicles. I pick her up early; we come home and sit in bed watching a movie and enjoying our popsicles. Welcome to summer! * * * * * * Photo above is courtesy of a Yummy new site I have found called, www.EndlessSimmer.com * * * * * * I didn't actually make these delicious looking popsicles, but they sound too delicious to pass up... by the way, they are obviously not for sharing in front of the TV with your daughter (unless she is over 21 and recovering from a break up or a bad grade:>) Watermelon Mojito Popsicles Makes 12 2.5 oz Popsicles · 8oz. watermelon juice (2 ½ cups chopped watermelon) · 2 oz fresh lime juice · 1 oz. simple mint syrup (recipe follows) · 8 oz. light rum · 14 oz. club soda Instructions: 1. Place chopped watermelon in a food processor or blender and process until watermelon is juiced (will be slightly pulpy). 2. Combine watermelon juice, lime juice, mint syrup and rum in a shaker and shake well. Fill popsicle mold 3/4 of the way up with mixture. Fill remaining (more....)
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“I read it again now and can’t believe I liked it in high school. I guess it was just angst ridden like us. Now it felt whiney.”
We had arranged a book swap at school and, in between classes, the volunteers were talking about the classics we had read as kids. The children’s books were easy to review… things like Nancy Drew or Little House on the Prairie. But when we got to the high school level we all had different favorites. It’s now clear I always leaned toward a British sensibility. The Importance of Being Ernest, Pride and Prejudice, even the Canterbury Tales were all favorites of mine- but American writers not as much. Many of the women were re-reading some of the classics because of The Great Gatsby coming out as a new movie. “What about Steinbeck?” asked one. “Oh, or Virginia Woolf?” said another. East of Eden by Steinbeck was a top choice for someone and a bottom for another. Everyone agreed, though, that J.D. Salinger fell flat compared to our memory of it as a teenager. We wondered aloud why something would appeal so strongly to us at that age and came up with the teenage angst theory in the overhear. As a writer it made me think; how do young adult authors write something that is true to who they are as adults, but is also relatable to a teenager or twenty something? The phases we go through in our lives are unique, not just in situation, but in tone. Even if I wanted to write for this age I am not sure I could pull it off… I don’t think I could have even when I was a high schooler. I am glad to say, even on it’s worst day, my life was never angst ridden enough to match Salinger. |
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