Just Because

We did it.

It was usually during Summer vacations when we were actually on vacation, too.

We’d let the kids eat DESSERT FOR BREAKFAST?

Sometimes it would be cake

Sometimes it would be pie

Sometimes it would be cookies

Sometimes it would be popcorn

Sometimes it would be ice-cream

Sometimes it would be a bag of candy

I noticed it without really trying to notice. . .

So did THEY

We all did.

Seriously, it was 7:30 A. M. Before School.

Among the French toast, easy over eggs, pancakes, sausage patties and links, bacon and hash browns…

THERE IT WAS:

A Huge Chocolate Fudge Sundae

His eyes were shiny and huge and very appreciative.

His Father?

Well, he seemed very pleased to appease.

Was it a reward?

A paid off bet?

A bribe?

An Equalizer?

The other two kids from a couple of tables down almost immediately stopped eating and couldn’t stop ogling that mountain of quickly disappearing fudge and dripping vanilla ice-cream with whipped frosting.

THEIR’S was not to know THAT pleasure at 7:44 that morning.

When I went to the register to pay for my cheesy eggs and side of bacon with a fountain of coffee, the mother of the two kids who couldn’t stop looking at the Sundae which had magically disappeared before their eyes, but not his face…

“What’s with the kid getting a Sundae before eight-o’clock in the morning?”

The waitress behind the register said, “You know, I asked they guy the same thing when the kid ordered it.”

“Well, what did he say,” the mom insistently wanted to know?

“He said, well He said, JUST BECAUSE…”

“JUST BECAUSE,” Mom bellowed probably louder than she thought so that everyone stopped stirring, scooping, slicing, cutting, slurping and eating and just looked up. “LIKE THAT’S A REASON?”

T H A T

happened about three weeks ago between that magical time…those beautiful moments…between Christmas and New Year’s before the Holiday glitter of glorious globed world settled down

AGAIN

It keeps bouncing around my head, well, actually more my heart…

Of THOSE TIMES

once lived but never forgotten and now remembered…

LIVED ALL OVER AGAIN!

I had to bring them to page for Peace and for even more RE-Memberings

It’s like I just discovered a beautiful, unknown Continent–

in just two words:

JUST BECAUSE

Hey, Sundae’s for ALL, on me, for the bestest reasons of all:

J U S T

B E C A U S E