Mallow cups / Memory cups

Ok I am back and hoping I was missed!

I have been basking in the glory of grandmotherhood!  January 17th our beautiful granddaughter Audrey Eileen graced our lives with her presence.  I was Blessed enough to spend 2 weeks with them and now suffer Sweet newborn baby smell withdrawals.

so I am back and have been trying to get caught up at work and home, and decided time once lost is never returned. So here I am ready to move forward with what I want to do and not what I maybe should be doing.  Life though has a way of saying you will do this. That is what life has been telling me the past few sleep deprived, fluid forcer, pill pushing, mess cleaner upper comforting mama I have had to  wanted to be the past few days for Cameron.  He is on the mend tonight and after bleaching nearly everything he has come in contact with, washing all of our bedding twice! and carrying the can of Lysol as though it was my new best friend I am hoping I have escaped that nasty germ!

So here I am doing what I want to do now.

Today I stopped at the store to stock up on chicken noodle soup, ginger ale and whatever else one would need when one really wants nothing.  I though the sure way to ward off this thing from entering my system is to go and buy everything I may need IF I get it.  so I am in the store and ready to check out, and I see it, my weakness, you know the one that we all have that we can NEVER say no to.  The one that you justify the need for.  Even when you are on the strictest diet, or you have been killing working yourself at the gym so that you will still fit in all your clothes for the next season.  All that goes out the window no importance to any of it when I see the mouth watering MALLOW CUPS! 

I grab those babies up and sure enough the first thing I do is justify why I have  to have them.  " I have been cleaning up unmentionables from a sick child, and practically sterilizing my house for the past 3 days, and running low on sleep because like babies when they are ready to be born , kids they want to be sick in the middle of the night.  And then the ultimate stupid brilliant justification, I may get this bug and then I will lose whatever these things will make me gain anyway, in the cart you go!

Why do we do that? Did I really need to justify wanting those so bad? No I didn't.  Did I really want them for the delicious taste? Well yes I did but I got in the car and before I turned the ignition I was unwrapping my treat and as I did so many childhood memories flooded my mind just over these mallow cups.

We would collect all the little cards that came in them until we had enough to send away for a whole box of these gooey, chocolaty marshmallow treats.  We did this together and the excitement that ran through us when that case arrived in the mail, I can still feel today when I see them on the shelf in the store. I saw the faces of my brother and sister as we ate them, and I realized I was not just eating a sweet treat I was filling myself with warm memories and people that stuff there is good for you!  Next time I hunt for spot mallow cups on the store shelf I will reach for them and fill myself with warm thoughts and not guilt or regret.