Sweet Revenge

I took my revenge on the can of coconut milk that smashed my toe last week. I whipped it thoroughly and made it into some delicious dairy-free cookie dough ice cream. The kids approved wholeheartedly.

(Apparently, you can’t teach a young dork new tricks. They struck the exact same pose as their last tribute to ice cream.)

Color Coordinated

It occurs to me that my toe is red, white and blue just like my toenails. 😂

Priorities

This afternoon I was putting groceries away when a grocery bag broke and dropped a can of coconut milk right on my toe. It took off a big chunk of skin and hit me so hard that is was a good five minutes before it even started to bleed. I was hopping around and yelling like a maniac, so Matthew finished putting the groceries away. When he was done, he came to make sure I was ok. Nice, right? He’s a good kid.

Malia’s response was a bit cooler. “At least it didn’t hit your toenail.” Sigh. No sympathy there. But she does have a valid point. I do have cute toenails right now. Maybe they will provide a distraction from the sorry state of the rest of my toe.

Traditions

A Strange New Beast

Let me introduce you to the recently discovered species cup-icorn (genus: dork).

The Tall and the Short of It

I have two teenage sons that have achieved the height of 6’. It has been good in that I now have three tall housemates who can reach all the tall things for me. On the downside, I had to give my sons a talking to this week in relation to my kitchen. I need them to put things away in exactly the same place and in exactly the same way as I do. Years of experience have taught me that if I put away pitchers, blenders, food processors, etc. with the handles facing outward, I can use the tongs or a spatula to get them down. If the handles are pointed in, I need a stool or a tall person to get them down. I also use the cords of appliances to wiggle them out of cupboards which means the bundled cords need to be facing the front. They don’t even think about it. They can just reach their monkey arms up there and grab things, hence the talk. Of course, they have encountered some challenges such as dusting the chandeliers with their hair, needing denim colored socks to disguise the fact that their pants are too short…again (that’s mostly Nathan), spending forever wandering around the grocery store looking for rock salt because they didn’t think to look on the bottom shelf (even though I told them exactly where to find it), you know, tall people problems. So pros and cons.

Now Nathan’s goal is to be taller than Daniel. I asked him a couple of weeks ago if he was taller than Daniel and his response was, “I certainly hope so!” He was still ½” shorter than Daniel then. Now they are neck in neck…or head in head. It is a definite possibility that Nathan will achieve his goal. Luckily, Daniel is in no way threatened by the thought of having his younger brother be taller than he is. He’s a good sport about the whole thing.

On the opposite end of the yardstick, Matthew is just glad that he’s not the shortest person in his grade anymore. He has embraced his lack of stature and jokes about it. However, he would really love if all the servers at the restaurants would quit giving him a kiddie cup and a packet of crayons…

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream!

Because of all the allergies, the kinds of ice cream Matthew can eat are extremely limited. He can have soy or coconut-based ice creams, but there are only a few flavors available in each. As such, I’ve always thought making homemade ice cream would be super because we could make it any flavor he wants. However, an ice cream maker has never come to the top of the list and I’m much to lazy to make it in a jar. During a conversation with my mom, I happened to mention my desire to make Matthew friendly ice cream and she proceeded to offer me her ice cream maker. She had purchased it years ago thinking she was going to make ice cream and then never did. So it was brand new, never been used. Let me tell you that I was quick to accept her offer!

This evening was our maiden voyage into home-made, allergen free ice cream. I had a friend offer me sweet cherries from her tree so that was our flavor of the week. And it was absolutely delicious! We’ve decided to spend the summer trying a new flavor each week for family home evening. I look forward to our further experiments!

Summertime Means Free Bowling!