Tonight for dinner I made a meal that has become one of our family favorites this winter — spaghetti with homemade meatballs (the best meatballs ever! I am planning to post the recipe on Friday!). As we sat down to eat, the bambinos and Braydon were raving about these meatballs, and about the whole meal, and we were all ooohing and aaaahing about our newfound love of this dinner (up until I started making these particular meatballs, none of us ever even like meatballs). Suddenly Meera jumped up from the table and went running off– quickly returning with her “phone” (an old iPhone that she inherited years ago). She started taking a photo of her plate, then climbed up on her chair to get just the right angle. At one point, completely dead-serious, she even re-arranged a slice of red pepper so that it would be laying just-so across a few slices of cucumber! How many times in her six years on this planet has she seen her mom do something like this?! You know your mom’s a blogger when… … …you’re eating a delicious meal and you just have to capture it photographically!
P.S. One of the funniest parts about this is that Meera is the only one in the family who won’t eat the meatballs. Prior to this particular meatball recipe, Kyle wouldn’t eat ground meat either — and Owen, only rarely (in the form of superior quality medium-rare cheeseburgers). For Meera, this meal is a rare and coveted opportunity to get away with having one of her favorite foods — spaghetti with butter and parmesan cheese!