Warm-from-the-oven goodness :)

Last week there was a tap at the door.  There stood my neighbour, M, with her super lovely daughter A holding her tiny tot lovelies (two of them to be exact, dimples a-shining!)- holding a plate with four glimmering, sweet warm-from-the-oven, streusel topped wild blueberry home-baked muffins.

I gasped! M was returning plates from a tiny batch of samosas I had delivered to their door one night...and in her opposite hand, the muffins.

I ate two.  Yes, there are four, count that FOUR people in my family.  Cough...

Julian ate one.

One sat.

And sat.

Til the evening!  

Taunting me each time I walked into the kitchen.  There, on the table.  On M's designer white plate.  The wild blueberry gorgeousness, with sweet streusel topping...beaming at me like an angel.  "Eat me," it beckoned.

"No," replied my hips, calmly. 

Sneering, the muffin taunts, "Well, that cup of tea is pretty boring without ME."

Turning, holding back a tear, I whispered silently yet firmly, "Evil muffin, you who are so tasty and caloric, be gone! You are left for one of the children or both of them to split so stop teasing me it will get you nowhere!!!"

Looking rather forlorn and disgruntled, the muffin stopped.  It sat for a few more hours.  Each time it spied me it raised a sweet eyebrow of hopefulness. Hmmpph.

Later, I returned to the kitchen to see a plate of crumbs.  Ah, someone had succumbed, but not me. I couldn't help my schadenfreude.  {I was secretly happy that muffin bit the dust.}  That delicious, home-baked wild blueberry streusel- topped EVIL thing. 

When M returns home from her weekend I shall return her plate.  Between us, she'll never know how those muffins came to their end. ;D

Comments

[Maithri]

Can you please send some to Australia... I'll pay the postage ;) Love you!

[Rochambeau]

You are a disciplined and funny girl that I love.
Evil Muffins Go away!!!!!!!

xox
Constance

[linni]

oh yummy! and the conversations a muffin can have....sjuut...don't let them know you know that they (actually) knows everything! Teehee xx

[madelyn]

I'm going to make pumpkin muffins today!

yes i am!

[Randi]

you're so cute! :) maybe your neighbor would share the recipe?

[Account Deleted]

hey

you can blame me

your photo looked
so yummy
i almost ate my plasma*screen.

:-)

{{ honestly, i could smell
the blueberries from
HERE

even one day late }}

[Gigi]

Ha! You have described my (nearly) daily struggle. I love this post and I admire your strength. I'd have eaten that damn muffin. xo

[Paris Parfait]

Admirable restraint! Just a test for one's willpower; it looks scrumptious. xoxox

[Tracy]

That is so lovely... and so is the muffin...mmm...:o)

[Relyn]

Well, now I have nothing to say. Some Pink Flowers did it already. Perfectly. ;^)

[Andi]

Haha, what a cute post! I would have eaten all 4 no doubt. :)