Edible Cell Project???

The egg might be incredible and edible, but let me tell you that this "edible cell" project has been a challenge! By the way, the project is not even for me. It's for my 15-year old daughter who is taking Biology. After a full afternoon of volleyball practice and a couple of hours practicing for a school play, I picked her up and we stopped by the grocery store to buy the stuff to make this A+ project in thirty minutes or less. Yeah, right! It's after 11:00 and we're just pulling the edible cell out of the oven. Hey, I'm an originalist, okay. Can't do what anyone else is doing. My daughter procured that same challenge for life. Be different. Do it differently. See it differently. So we did a quiche, with the egg base being the cytoplasm of the cell. If I sound intelligent about the makeup of a cell, don't be fooled. I've only seen those thirteen words about twenty times already tonight! Who says repetition isn't a way to learn something? Now, if you were to ask me to name the parts of a cell by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.....well, don't.

I had a wonderful day writing. We were missionaries in West Africa for almost twenty years and have seen some amazing things. Over and over again, I have people ask when I am going to write a book about our African stories. Funny, I knew that I would eventually write this book 17-18 years ago. But it has only been in the past year or so that I knew it was time to write. But actually taking the opportunity or making an opportunity to write has been my greatest challenge. Today, however; was one of those opportunities staring me right in the face! I was able to devote my entire day to writing. Actually I did more editing and researching, but that's part of writing, too!

And then came the edible cell! Haunting me, stalking me, taunting me! But finally it's out of the oven, very impressive and cell-like, and my daughter is putting the finishing touches on her colorful checklist that she will present with the biological quiche tomorrow! Bon appetit, Mrs. Biology teacher!!

Ah, nothing like a day when you get something accomplished and see the fruit of your labor!!