Things we love #40: Another meditation on Arta and Food!

Seriously? Cheese and Cream of Wheat Sandwich?!

My mother Arta loves food. 

This we all know.

It has been a strange time, as Arta's appetite has been impacted by that dratted unwelcome visitor on her pancreas.  

However, last week, after the bypass surgery/the new stent and the nerve block, Arta's appetite has returned.   

It has been a week of her making kitten-like mewling sounds of happiness upon encountering the small allowed pleasures like apple juice, yogurt and icecream.  

Now, I do 'get' the love of icecream, but I was a bit baffled by her approach to Cream of Wheat porridge.   Rather than warming it up, she made the decision to cut up some slices of the cold cream of wheat porridge and layer it with slices of cheddar cheese.   

I will take it only as a sign that her taste for food has emerged.

Some of you may know of Catherine's proclivity for making culturally-modified cut-and-paste art works for our family to share during our weekly Zoom family meeting.

This week, Arta's newly reaffirmed love of food was celebrated in this masterpiece of art! 

If you look closely, you will see that my brother Kelvin appears twice in this masterpiece.   

Did you find him?  

If you didn't, here is a photo hint... a picture of Kelvin's fabulous werewolf costume of so many years back.   

A classic!

Kelvin and Mary, as werewolf and dinner

This photo does directly speak to the food theme of this celebration of Arta (since it would appear that in this photo, Mary is worried that she is about to BECOME food.... the werewolf version of a cream of wheat and cheddar sandwich?)