Let it Snow

Our little world is covered in a thick blanket of snow. It is absolutely beautiful, and to add to the beauty we had a snow day! Eric and I are like little kids. We don't want to mention the possiblity of a snow day because then we would jinx it and not get one. Yet, we make sure that the phone is next to the bed and when the phone rings at 5:30 am we are ecstatic! Our snow day started early last night. Our routine Wednesday night staff meeting at Gazelle got cancelled and thus we had the evening at home. It was great! I decided that in celebration of the snow night I would make rice pudding. It seemed like a very snowed in sort of thing to do. Grandma Wilkinson rice pudding is delicous. With a thick custard and a dash of nutmeg and cinnamon, it is to die for. Well, to put it mildly, I butchered the rice pudding. I tried so hard, but it was a disaster. Eric was rather quiet (Ok, not all that unusaul, I know) as he ate it, but kindly commented that it had good flavor. After finally eating almost all of the pudding he finally remarked, "I think I know what is wrong with this rice pudding, you scrambled the eggs!" Sure enough, when I combined the rice with the custard the rice was too hot and there were rather large chunks of scrambled egg strewn throughout the pudding. We had a good laugh about it and I now know how to put just a small spoonful of the warm liquid into the custard so as not to scramble it. All of this to say, as I relected on what had happended I realized that I am so thankful for an authentic, honest relationship with Eric. All of those times that he has told me that my cooking is amazing, or that I am beautiful now have significant meaning. When he says them he truly means them as evidenced by the fact that when my cooking was less than par he kindly told me the truth. For me this laughable moment with rice pudding is a much deeper metaphor for the safety and honesty of our love. I don't think that Eric had any idea that by telling me that my pudding really wasn't very good that I would find such comfort, but truly I did.