Congratulations, Auntie Tina!
So awesome to have a new baby to love on...
Lynxstch, I hope your stepson doesn't get any more symptoms and gets better soon!
All of the ornament talk sent me to the Hallmark website to check it out. I saw that they have a Haunted Mansion Hitchhiking Ghosts ornament and a Marty McFly from Back to the Future ornament. Dang it...Josh is obsessed with both of those things. "Santa" might have to bring him one of them (or both, depending on stock). He has so many ornaments already...the year he turned 1, there was a cute series of baby animals with the age number on them (up to age 5), so I bought them all and he gets one every birthday. I have to remember to give him 5 this year!
Every Christmas as well, Santa brings him a favorite character ornament as well. I wonder if he'll still be interested in those as he gets older...I can't see him wanting to display Daniel Tiger or Gecko from PJ Masks when he's 15
Still waiting on our tomatoes here as well. Lots of HUGE green ones. Only 2 plants but they will come in all at once. Just I hope I don't have to stew them and/or make spaghetti sauce in the heat and humidity.
The zucchini brownies came out fabulous yesterday. I noticed in the recipe comments that there was some controversy about adding an egg, as the recipe didn't have one listed. Since they said that adding the egg made them cake-like, I did it since we prefer our brownies that way. Josh didn't have any but DH loved them. I also tried making a "quick" shrimp scampi for dinner, but it came out more lemon-y and not enough garlic-y. I'll stick with my mom's recipe from now on.
I also tried the state project with Josh yesterday, starting with CT. He barely lasted 5 minutes. He wasn't at all interested in drawing the flag. He liked finding a musician and watching a music video - CT was hard, but I finally settled on Rivers Cuomo and Weezer, since DH likes them, and showed Josh the Happy Days "Buddy Holly" video. He liked it - he knows who Fonzie is and enjoyed that he was in it - but he completely lost interest after that. He then had another meltdown and screaming fit at me. Today we did MA and he lasted a bit longer. I tried Aerosmith for the musician...showed him the video for "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" which is the song I sing to him a lot, but he preferred New Kids on the Block
Josh's best friend's mom posted on FB this morning that she's having a hard time with her son, too. He also has a younger sister, so he does have someone to play with, but she doesn't/can't do the things he wants to do. So I guess this isn't entirely unusual. Honestly, this is the biggest reason I'm going to let him go to school in the fall - these kids really seem to need some social interaction, with kids their own age. I hear my BIL and SIL are having some trouble with our 14-year-old niece, too; she's champing at the bit to see her friends and has been in a 4-month-long foul mood because of it.
Edited to add: I wish it would rain here! Periodically it gets pitch-black and I hear rumbles of thunder, then it passes without a single drop of rain. Yesterday I even got a severe weather warning on my phone, the wind was whipping so I went out to collect some of our decorations...and it passed. DH said it poured heavily at work, but not a thing here. This is getting BAD.
Mine are all still green, they are getting big though, so I'll be patient and wait. But at this rate, I expect I will have all 36 plants to have ripe tomatoes at the same time, lol!
...and our lettuce is done too....
I wonder why I can never get an entire salad....first, my lettuce is ready, then my cukes, and FINALLY, we get tomatoes.
