My Grammie Betsy is an incredible cook. One day when I was very little I asked her why her food was so yummy. Her response was simple, "Two scoops of love". When I was little I didn't question it. I just thought, "Of course! That makes sense." However, as I got older I began to see what the special ingredient really is and it was much more than just food.
My Grammie loves her family. She makes everyone a special meal for their birthday each year. Every year she cooks a New Year's Day meal for everyone to eat together. What better way to start the new year than eating with your loved ones? Her meals bring the family to the dinner table. My family gathers around the table eating, talking, and laughing. At that moment, with everyone enjoying each other's company, I know that is what two scoops of love is.
I love to learn new things and my Grammie Betsy loves to teach me how to cook. It's perfect. Some of my greatest moments and memories are in the kitchen covered in flour or peeling potatoes.
She not only teaches me but my younger siblings as well. Just this weekend me, Grammie, and my little brother made blueberry pancakes and homemade blueberry syrup. We learned to cook something, but it was more than that. We made memories that will last a lifetime. We played music, made special pancakes shaped like Mickey and footballs, and we laughed a lot. At that moment, in the dim kitchen light with the ones I love, I know what two scoops of love are.
Grammie Betsy is one of the kindest people I know. She spent some of her holidays volunteering with an organization that feeds the homeless. She sends dinner leftover to the neighbors.
She caters the special events in her loved ones' lives, such as wedding receptions. She uses food to show love and kindness. That is what two scoops of love is. It is love. It is Kindness. I hope I can as generous as her. I want to put two scoops of love into everything I do the way she does.
