Birthday Key Lime Pie

It’s that time of year again! I make a dessert, take pictures of it and show it off to you. I’m headed to Florida with some gal pals on Thursday, so it was fitting I make a KEY LIME PIE!!

As one climbs in age, the less certain foods agree with you, so I tried making a lactose free key lime pie. It looks dreadful. I looked at photos online to confirm I made it correctly, which I did. Holy geesh it’s gross looking. It’s so eggy and not creamy and smooth. But like most of my food it tastes a bit better than it looks, so I recommend you just look at the nice key limes. They’re really cute!

PERSONAL PROJECT // FIRST DAY OF SEVENTH GRADE

New sneakers. New backpack. Fresh haircut. Masks on. It’s time for 7th grade.

Greydon awoke early without drama, which is saying a lot for him since he’s not a morning person. Showered and out the door to catch a bus…that never came. His buddy and neighbor, Grady, was also waiting for the bus. Pick up time came and went and we made the call to load the boys in the car and drive them to school. There’s a bus driver shortage for Montgomery County Public Schools, so first day logistics are going to be a bit scrambled. Regardless, it was fun for Greydon to have a friend along on the first day.

Greydon is getting older and has little patience for my First Day of School photo stories, but he survived. :-)

PERSONAL PROJECT // LAST DAY OF SIXTH GRADE

Done, done, and done. Sixth grade is done. We could not not be prouder of this guy. Academically, Greydon has done stellar. Maybe a virtual model was good for him. Who knows how he will do in person full time, but this year he did a great job!

Things are returning to a little bit of normal. Fletcher has returned to the office in DC full time. He’s back to his 3 hour round-trip commute, 12 hour days and we miss him terribly; we miss the family time. Sadly his work has neglected to accept the work-from-home model or even a hybrid model and has reverted to their old ways.

I digress. The past 15 months have been wonderful for us as a family. The time spent together, though a little much at times, has shown us an appreciation that family and friends are the most important things we have in life.

This spring there has been baseball. So much baseball. Games and practice since April and it will continue this summer as G and his Clarksburg Keys 12U team head to Cooperstown, NY for a week-long tournament at the All Star Village. There are a few more tournaments his team will participate in before that, as well. He joined swim team again for conditioning, but we aren’t sure how many meets we’ll be able to attend because of, you guessed it, baseball.

I suppose this summer we’ll also have to move Greydon’s “school” out of the living room, so stay tuned for yet another reorg of his bedroom. Maybe we’ll finally get some things hung on the walls.

HAPPY SUMMER EVERYONE!!