Toast

     Emily has toast for breakfast practically every morning. Yes, she loves waffles and was very excited on our big trip whenever the hotel we were staying in had a waffle maker for waffles with their free breakfast. When we came back I bought frozen ones and she would have one for breakfast every couple of days. Robert and my husband helped finish off the boxes when I bought them. Emily always went back to her toast. I can't say I blame her either as I love my toast for breakfast every morning also. I'm very particular about my bread and butter for my toast though. It has to be real butter and my favorite bread comes from BJ's Wholesale Club. So, on our big trip I wasn't as excited for breakfast as they usually didn't have real butter and the bread was never right.
     I've been having toast for breakfast in the mornings since probably before I was Emilys age. I'm a morning person and always have been. I used to get up with my dad a lot of mornings before he went to work at 5am. We of course would be the only ones up. He would make my toast for breakfast. I loved when he cut it into squares instead of plain old triangles. I would squeeze the pieces together and suck off the butter and than eat the rest. He showed me how at certain times of the year the sun came in through the side door and we could make hand puppets on the half wall of the kitchen.
     Emily is not a morning person. She doesn't like her toast cut up at all. She does prefer I cut off the crusts. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. When I don't, sometimes she eats it, sometimes she rips it off herself. She checks the bottoms of her toast before she eats it. The lighter the better for her. So really she likes it barely toasted. We don't have that early time to ourselves like me and my dad had but we have our toast. Usually most mornings I've already had mine before she even gets up. She eats hers watching TV or playing wii with her brother, waking up before getting ready to go to school.
     I gave in and stopped eating two pieces of white toast with butter on it every morning a few years ago when I lost some weight. I could not give up my white bread or toast completely though. Some days I try not to have it and I don't. That next morning though I'm having it. I do only have one piece and try not to use as much butter now, but I still have it! I don't think I'll ever stop eating it no matter how many times I hear how bad white bread is. It's my thing and I love it. Sure I'll make concessions and cut down but I won't stop. And as long as Emily likes having her toast every morning she'll be eating it too. Sooner or later I'll be having her make it herself but I wonder if she'll think about her mommy made toast breakfasts when she's as old as I am?