1st good deed: Reading to my child. I am reading a book to Millie called “Totto-Chan, The little Girl at the Window”.  A true story of a  Japanese girl who gets thrown out of her school (a mere kindergartner) and her mother finds her this fabulous alternative school with truly enlightened teachers. I wish I could do the same for Millie.

Anyway we were talking about food – b/c in the book the kids have to bring “something from the ocean and something from the hills” every day in their lunch. Totto-chan brings something called denbu which is the flesh of a fish scraped off the bones, then mashed up, and cooked. Sound tasty? You learn something new every day.

2nd good deed: Cooking with my child. We decided that we would make something too. Um, NOT denbu. Instead we made cousin-in-law Lindsay’s sour-cream cherry muffins. (Lindsay, you really are a domestic goddess – these muffins ROCK!) We had a swell time cooking together.  Millie discovered that she loves cherries and not just as a decorative pattern on her apron.

3rd good deed: We decided to take the muffins to our next door neighbors. Millie’s idea!

4th good deed: Here are three clues to what lead to the 4th good deed.

1. April 30th (last day of the month)

2.

this good sister's name came up twice on my caller ID

3. Guilt

Yes, visiting teaching had not been completed for the month of April. But there were still a few hours left in the month of April and it struck me that I could take a few muffins to the ladies I visit.

Whala!

The muffins were placed in lovely little boxes and delivered to my visiting teach-ets.

So shall it be written, so shall it be done!

*RE: 2nd Clue – I want to give a shout out to my girl, Sister Van Uiert. She is the most dilligent VT coordinator I have ever known.  She calls and calls until she gets the data, and that is not a fun and easy task. Even though I have never met her face to face I love her. And by golly, she has got my vote!