Why

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These daughters of mine…

Will forever be little girls…in the head of mama me…seems weird…to see them talking like a grown up…acting like a grown up…doing…grown up things…all those years…mama me running the show…doing things her way…it’s funny to see…grown up them…do things…in a new way…a different way…their own…coffee in the French press…way…

And so it was…the master chef watching pasta boiling…her mother…watching from the sidelines…a conversation goes like this…

Me…do you have a second saucepan…
Her…why…
Me…to warm up the pasta sauce…
Her…why…
Me…don’t you warm it up before you put it on your spaghetti…
Her…why…
Me…because…(has to think on this awhile)…that’s the way my mom always did it…

Then she demonstrates her one pan way…drain the noodles…add the sauce to the drained noodles and warm them together in the noodle pan…easy peasy lemon squeezy…

Why heat the sauce separately…never asked…never cared…but sometimes…in life…it’s important to ask…to care…cuz those questions…can bring answers…and those answers…might bring about…important change…and sometimes…that change…can be a good thing…a very good thing…indeed…
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And this daughter of mine…agrees…