Today I was the proud witness of two miracles. Marshmallows and Mckenzie. Of course marshmallows don't seem like much of a miracle, but today they really brought me out of my everyday perspective and landed me in a less common one. Today, you see, I made homemade marshmallows. Someone told me they tasted better. I think it was Laura. Despite my efforts, I couldn't find a recipe that didn't include gelatin, but I found a highly rated recipe that worked as it said it would. What I find miraculous in all of this nonsense about marshmallows is that someone came up with the idea of marshmallows in the first place. They don't taste very good, and now that I've made them I know why. They are all sugar. Boring! But still, someone heated up sugar and water and corn syrup until it boiled at just the right temperature and then they whipped it up with gelatin for a very long time until it turned into a stiff fluff. Am I the only one who finds that odd? Even if there wee a logical explanation as to how and why they were first made, you would think they would have tasted it and said, "no, not so much" and called it day. Now these largely tasteless bits of puffed sugar are mass produced and sold commercially except they seem to think Blue Lake #40 is an important addition to the mix. Mine looked fine without it. I don't know. I still just think the whole deal is a miracle.
The bigger better miracle though was watching a video of Mckenzie take her first post-op walk. Mckenzie had one of her hind legs surgically removed after Craig found a tumor growing there. The journey has been a rough one for them both, but the video is inspiring to me. No words can convey the joy of witnessing such triumph. If you need a something to lift you out of self-pity and inspire you to press on through adversity, just click the link to Craig's blog on my Cool Links List and see a big miracle for yourself.
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