It was a great Easter last weekend. I was blessed that my mother and her husband, and my sister and her family were all able to come over for Easter dinner. It was a double bonus because my mom cooked the food and brought it over this year. Both the food and the company exceptional and we had a tremendous time. As always, we ate and ate. And then we ate some more.
Even still, we had an abundance of food (leftovers) that I packed into my refrigerator, filling it to capacity. After 5 days of eating leftover ham shank morsels this week and having reached my limit of deviled eggs and fatback green beans, I decided to purge my refrigerator of its Easter feast remnants.
Upon doing so I discovered "The Creature." I'm not sure what it was, but it lived inside one of the tubs of Michigan Small Curd Cottage Cheese. It was furry and blue-green. "The Creature" had grown to full strength quietly and ominously on the back corner of the third shelf in my Kenmore. Eclipsed by the mountain of other foods in front of it, I hadn't noticed it for weeks. I had forgotten it was there. I had even purchased a new tub of cottage cheese thinking I had none.
Sometimes when we live in an environment that's too full, we forget to notice what we already have.
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