nostalgia.
tonight i was craving something. i didn't really know what. i'd eaten dinner and it was satisfying. but i kept wandering into the kitchen, opening and closing cupboards and the fridge, eating single m&m's, hoping that i'd strike upon the perfect fix. but nothing did it. then i opened the fridge and made a marvelous discovery. frosting. perfectly buttery, creamy homemade frosting. the very best kind. and my mama had graham crackers. ten minutes and a few graham-cracker-and-frosting cookies later my craving was gone and i was happy. i can't eat graham cracker cookies without remembering those delightful days in elementary school when i would open my lunch bag and discover that my mama was out of store-bought treats and had resorted to whipping up a batch of frosting and building cookies of her own. she may have thought they were a last resort, a poor substitue for the real thing, but in my child's mind they were pure confectionary heaven. they still are.
there's no treat so marvelous as graham crackers and chocolate frosting.
ReplyDeleteyou can have the chocolate frosting ones. i prefer butter cream frosting. never have developed a taste for chocolate frosting, which is, i realize, weird. but it is what it is.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I have graham crackers and frosting, I think of the first time I had them too. I was seven and it was the evening my grandpa died and we were staying with my grandma's first cousin and his wife. Oddly, it's a happy memory .
ReplyDeletemmmm. graham crackers with frosting. i didn't know that other people did this - i thought our family invented it! :o)
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