Missing Mail

I received one of those 3 AM phone calls from TB a few days ago. The timing never matters to me. I was happy to hear that some of the missing mail I sent in October finally reached him.


TB loves banana bread. I sent some to him before he deployed. The package took several weeks to arrive and TB said the bread didn’t survive very well. In September he mentioned how much he would love to have some banana bread. It occurred to me that banana cookies might work, so I searched online for a recipe. I found one that fit his dietary restrictions.

Some of the boxes TB received were the ones I sent on October 4th. The cookies were such a surprise to him! I kept telling him that he shouldn’t eat them but he insisted they were good and that he would be my guinea pig any day. Maybe he is right and the cold weather there helped preserve them. I always keep a few cookies when I send a batch. That way I can taste test them myself when I hear they arrive. The banana nut cookies I kept really weren’t so bad. A little stale, I thought, but after three months, I was surprised at how good they really were.

I love surprising TB. Another mission accomplished!