I'm a Grown Up

Breakfast this morning:
1 egg
1 turkey lite jimmy dean sausage
1 c diced potatoes

My youngest asked me why I always seem to cook eggs and hashbrowns for myself. I thought about it for awhile and came up with this answer.

When I was growing up, my breakfasts consisted of cereal, and on the weekend if we had the money my mother would make french toast or pancakes. Very rarely did we get eggs and hashbrowns.

If we got the opportunity to go out mom would always order pancakes, but I would ask for egg and hashbrowns. It was a treat and as long as it was cheaper than Mom and Dad's menu item I could have it. So I would order the child's version. I loved it and felt so grown up eating in a restaurant grown up food, or what I thought was grown up food.

Occasionally I still have cereal, or I may have a waffle, french toast or a pancake. But my number one breakfast is eggs and hashbrowns. Silly as it may seem, at 44 I feel like a grown up eating eggs and hashbrowns.