simple pleasures

I've been working about 30 hours a week, and am trying to get back to the "working mom" mentality, still providing for my family but not going crazy. Yesterday was a 10 hour day, grueling, on my feet, and bustling all day. I walk to and from work, so the walk home was the last thing I wanted after that long on my legs... but I walked.

Not knowing what to make for dinner (I'd be arriving home at 6:30), I was frustrated before even walking in the door, knowing that I'd been slacking in planning meals, having worked my fifth day in a row...

I opened the door to the kitchen to find my darling husband at the stove, making mashed potatoes and boiled sweet corn.

understand what this meant to me.

• my husband understood that i'd be tired and not want to cook
• i didn't have to cook dinner
• we had surprise sweet corn that i didn't know about

My husband cooks off and on, less since I've been at home, but he still likes to cook. While mashed potatoes and sweet corn may not appear to be a gourmet balanced meal, not having to cook it myself, and it being fresh in season veggies, I was thrilled.

The sweet corn was a gift from my in-laws, who had purchased some from a local Amish farm. The corn in general this year has not been good. Due to drought, it's been dimpled, touch, and really not that sweet.

BUT THIS SWEET CORN...

IT was another story.

It was the true, tender, ultra sweet treat that we normally enjoy here in central Wisconsin. The first truly sweet sweet corn we've had this year. Tender, beautiful sweet corn that made all the troubles of the day melt away.

For those of you who have never eaten fresh picked sweet corn, you will not understand. But it is truly heaven-sent.

And it was those little things - not having to make dinner, and enjoying the amazing taste of summer, that made a not-so-wonderful day turn into a wonderful evening.