Strawberry Pancakes

Since I am thinking about strawberry pancakes today, I will do the blog in red. Brilliant idea, eh?

Anyway, I was at Ihop this morning and had strawberry pancakes for breakfast.

Now I don't have those very often, because I know they are so bad for you...but so good to you..and it makes me think, everytime I have them, of the very first time I ever ate them.
And I think of it every single time...isn't that weird??

Anyway, a long time ago, when my children were VERY young, I caught pneumonia and had to stay away from all my family. I could not touch them at all. I could not even get out of my bedroom except to go to the bathroom. I could not cook for them, of course, could not touch them in any way. I was a new mother and I just lay in the bed and cried because I missed hugging them so much.

My son was probably about eight or nine and he did the cooking. I would tell him exactly what to do and it all turned out fine. I am not sure, to this date, how that happened, and maybe that is why he enjoys cooking today. I don't know.
But anyway, I was in that room for three weeks.

And I said, if, and when I got well, I wanted some strawberry pancakes. Isn't that crazy? How your mind works when you are "deprived". Maybe I was in one of those "feverish, delirious"days, anyway, that is all I wanted when I got well enough to go out to a resturant and eat out....strawberry pancakes.

Finally, the day arrived. I was stronger. I could go out again.

And my husband took the kids and me to Ihop for STRAWBERRY PANCAKES. I was so excited.

Now you have to remember that we did not have much money in those days. We hardly ever ate out. For him to take us for pancakes was a big deal.

I ordered the STRAWBERRY PANCAKES. I waited anxiously for them to arrive. I had DREAMED about them for three weeks. my mouth was watering.

Then the waitress arrived with them. Joy of joys!

The strawberries were CANNED! Can you believe that? CANNED!!!

I almost cried. They were just such a disappointment that I just crumbled.

Isn't it funny, tho, what we get set in our minds....our funny goals...it was for me to get well enough after that horrible pneumonia to want such a trivial thing. set all of my will and thoughts on that one thing. And it happened and it was a huge disappointment.

Guess that is what happens in our everyday goal-setting sometime. We set our minds and hearts on such umimportant things, and then when it happens, it is disappointing. Everytime I think of this story, it helps set my priorities straight...on the things they shoudd be. It keeps everything more in line with God's goals and wants, not mine.

But I know that God's goal, and He reached it, was for me to get well....and to have those strawberry pancakes, so that He could teach me this lesson.

Guess that is it for today. Just thoughts I wanted to share with you....my silly lessons learned in life...and I am still learning.