A Microwave Mom Moment

Growing up my family ate dinner together on a regular basis. Mom almost always had dinner ready when dad got home form work.

90% of the time when we were cleaning up afterwards one of us would find some part of our dinner in the microwave. As Mom was getting dinner ready she would be heating something up, get distracted, and completely forget about it; we would eat the whole meal while some yummy dish sat totally forgotten about in the microwave.

Even if we had company over.....it never failed.....Mom would leave something in the microwave.

We would pick on her to no end. She said she'd be sitting there at dinner thinking that something was missing, but never learned to go check the microwave!

Well, today we had some family and friends over for an early Christmas Sunday lunch. I got food on the table for 15 people with no major catastrophes (unless you count cornbread blowing up in the oven the night before.....but we won't go there :-] )

Anyway, we say grace and start filling our plates with Sunday lunch. That's when I got that funny feeling. As I was watching people fill their plates I had this funny feeling like something was missing. I started going over the meal plan in my head hoping a light bulb would go off.

Turkey: BIG Check
Cranberry sauce: Check
Stuffing: Check
Sweet Potatoes: Check............

The list went on, and I still couldn't figure it out. Then a little voice told me to check the microwave.

Lo and behold, when I opened that little white door, there sat my bowl full of gravy for the mashed potatoes.

So, I without a doubt, totally and 100% believe that that little voice telling me to go check the microwave, was in fact my Mama :-]

I learned so much from her while I had her here with me for 21 years, and today I learned that even after death,  she is still teaching me important stuff.....like always checking the microwave before sitting down for dinner!