Sunday, November 15, 2009  New Recipe! "You won't be puffin'
when you eat this muffin."  Act One, Scene One -- Saturday
morning breakfast showdown:  Courtney (9): "What's for
breakfast?" Me (29ish): "I don't know, what do you want?"
Courtney: "Coffee." Me: "Ha! OK, and with your coffee? How about
something good for you?" Courtney: (sigh, followed by eye roll)
"Can I have a ham sandwich?" Me: "For breakfast? OK, I guess,
but only if you eat it on whole-grain bread." Courtney: "Ew,
Jenny, please no." (another eye roll) Keith: "You know, Court,
the sugars in white bread are just like eating a piece of cake.
Your body can't tell the difference." (I LOVE it when he quotes
me...hee hee...this is starting to catch on!) Courtney: "Ahhh,
Daddy! OK, fine."  OK, here we go. It's make it or break it
time. I mean, I know this bread tastes good. But it has actual,
visible "thingies" (a.k.a. grains) in it. Even Keith is tough
when it comes to the whole grain bread. She is looking very
skeptical now.  Act One, Scene Two -- A