Happy Mother's Day.

 

  Today I reflected upon a memory.  The memory of the first time I ever ordered mint-chocolate chip ice cream on my own.  I was nine I believe, and just so you know, my favorite ice-cream is mint chocolate chip and it became that after this event in my life.
Twas a hot summer day in Hickville Kentucky.  Also known as Nicholasville.  My step-mother Kathy and I go to grab a scoop at the local baskin robbins.  I think this was the first time we had ever gotten ice-cream together.  Usually my mom and I would get ice-cream at the baskin robbins in Dallas.  The one that was walking distance from my Aunt-Theresa's house.   It was always a fun journey, walking the alley way on warm summer evenings, plucking honey-suckle's from draping vines on your way to ice-cream.  One-hundred percent of the time my mom would get mint-chocolate chip ice cream in a waffle cone.  I would usually get oreo cookie ice cream or the peppermint candy ice cream in a kids cone.  Every time.  My mom used to ask me to try her ice cream and sometimes I would sometimes I wouldn't.  I was seven or eight at the time so it was never as good as what I had and that was that.
Back to the hot summer day in Kentucky; Kathy got a scoop of butter- pecan or praline or some weird ice cream flavor in a waffle cone, and I got, without much thought, a scoop of mint chocolate chip ice cream in a waffle cone.  This is what I wanted.  This is all I wanted.  I looked at this delicous scoop of ice cream and all I could think about was my mom.  And how all I wanted was the exact same thing she found to be so perfectly delicious.  It was the only flavor I found to be appealing out of baskin robbins 31 flavors.  Or 34 flavors or 72, how ever many it has.  That cold minty cream and shaved chocolate sealed the deal.
Nonetheless from this day forward, my ice cream of choice has been mint chocolate chip and always will be mint chocolate chip.  I am almost positive of this.

So, to you mom, cheers to mint chocolate chip ice cream.  I will carry on the flavor for you through generations to come.   Unless a better one comes along... but there won't be so no worries on that.

I love you mom.  Happy Mother's Day.

-J