Almost Perfect Popcorn!

Here's our bowl of popcorn with only a couple of handfuls missing. Thanks to Hilary and a few practice runs I'm now able to make a darn good bowl of popcorn in about 2 minutes. I take about 2/3 full of a 1/4 cup of popcorn kernels and place them in a brown lunch sack. Put them in the microwave for close to 1 minute 20 seconds. When the poppping slows down, stop the microwave. It is very easy to burn them if you let them pop as long as the microwave bags.
Next I melt 1 T real butter in a cup and pour it over the popcorn. Toss the butter and a shake of salt. Yum! Good old fashioned homemade popcorn. It is not as salty as the microwave kind but it reminds me of yesteryear. And you know how I love popcorn. It makes just enough for Steve and I to have a little snack. I could eat a lot more but this can satisfy. Of course, if Steve's not home, I eat it all myself. Sat. when we drove the pickup back to Hilary's, she suggested that we have a birthday celebration for me just a few days early. So we took the kids and went for pizza. We topped it off with one of those white chocolate macadamia cookies baked in a skillet with ice cream on top. It was downright decadent and delicious but, alas, we couldn't quite eat it all. Too bad!

Yes. I am entering my mature years when I celebrate my birthday tomorrow. I encourage one and all to call and sing if you choose, but request that you not spend any money purchasing gifts. I would love to get the rest of the 2009 Family Summaries. Just a page or two with pictures would be fabulous. I won't mention names, but you know who you are! Thank you, thank you, thank you in advance! I love you all and you are the reason that I prefer to continue having birthdays at all! This will be the first time in years that Steve is actually going to be home for my birthday. That is so odd that we are not sure how to celebrate. We'll figure out something.