Recipe For Home

Cass's Recipe for simple stir-fry

1. Throw vegetables, imitation crab, and sausage slices into a frying pan.

2. Add copious amounts of soy sauce.

3. Attempt to boil rice in a timely manner.

4. Don't burn the stir-fry!

5. Also don't forget the rice.

6. Timing is key. Let stir-fry cook until slightly browned, let rice be rice-like.

7. Serve stir-fry over rice to beautiful boy that makes you forget about everything when he walks in the door and gives you that goofy-ass grin because you surprised him with dinner.

8. Don't forget to turn off the grill.

See? That simple. A can of veggies, a handful of fake crab, and some heat turn any night into a happy memory. Not that we're in lack of those-but they are harder to come by nowadays.

Life hustles and bustles and blows us down. Sometimes it's easy to forget the simple things; How much he loves a good meal, or the way he lights up when he sees that you've remembered him. It really is the little things that count, but sometimes we forget the big things too. I forget that neither of us has had a real home, and that we've lived alone for so long. I'd let life tire me out so badly that I'd forgotten what it feels like to fall in love with his smile, or the way he always comes out of the bathroom with his hair slicked back, or how when he leaves late at night and I tell him to let me know he's made it back safely, he always forgets.

The last few weeks have been rough, but it's taken us back to square one and reminded me of the things that shouldn't be forgotten so easily. I like to think I've learned my lesson, and that I won't forget so soon this time.