TRANSCRIPT

You know what time it is? Here we go. It’s story time. Hey, I said it’s story time. Alright. It’s a brand new year, but I love telling stories so. I wanna tell you a very quick story, and it involves my mother and it also includes food. So you all know how passionate I am about helping you speak English fluently and with confidence, right?

So I work hard every day except for Sabbath on Saturday. Uh, I go to church on Saturday, so I work usually Monday to Friday and sometimes on Sundays. Now, last year, this is when I was staying with my parents. They were helping me, uh, as I was trying to build my business. I had to work a lot. So I worked again every day, except Saturday.

I worked about, hmm, maybe 12 hours a day because I wanted to make sure I provided you with the best English lessons. Now, as we mentioned earlier when we talked about being swamped, remember that word right? When you’re swamped at work, you can’t really eat the healthiest food. So what happened was it was a Sunday.

I had gotten up early. I’m an early bird, and I was working hard on an English lesson for you all, and I noticed that my stomach started to make some noises. Kinda like I said, oh, I’m a little hungry. So I went downstairs and my mom happened to be in the kitchen. She said, Hey Tiff, how are you? I said, I’m good, you know, just working.

Um, I just got a little bit hungry and she said, oh man, your dad and I, we were just talking about how good fried potatoes are on Sunday mornings. I said, yeah, they’re really delicious. I wish we had them today. And then I laughed because I knew my mom was busy doing things. My dad was busy doing things. We were all busy, so I didn’t expect her to make the fried potatoes because she had things going on too.

But I just let her know I really do love fried potatoes. So I got something to snack on, and then I went back upstairs to my office to continue working. Now about 10 or 15 minutes later, my nose. Started to get this whiff, this amazing aroma started to come and fill the house. And I said, I know that, wait a minute.

It smelled like caramelized onions. Hey, you got that too? I could smell the aroma of garlic and, and onion powder and, and a little salt and pepper. And I said, wait a minute. What am I smelling? So I tried to work for a few more minutes, but the smell just became overwhelming. You caught that too, right? It smelled so good.

So I opened my door and I walked down the steps, and when I got to the kitchen, I saw my mom making fried potatoes for me. She turned around and she said, Hey, TIFF, and she gave me that smile and I walked up to her and I gave her a big hug. I said, mommy, I really appreciate you. Thank you so much. Because she didn’t have to make the fried potatoes.

She was also busy, and I hadn’t even asked her, but that’s what a mother’s love will do. She knew that her daughter really did. And I still do love fried potatoes, and she wanted to do something that seemed so simple but meant so much. ’cause even to this day, I remember it. So maybe you do things like that for your children or for your family members, or for your spouse, just to let them know that you love them.

It’s the little things in life that mean the most. So for me, it was fried potatoes. What was it for you? I hope you enjoyed this story, guys, and I look forward to talking to you in the next English lesson.