Listed below are photographs from Mazen’s eleventh birthday, some happenings in the home, and different updates on the house entrance!
Mazen’s eleventh Birthday
Final Thursday this boy turned 11 years previous!
Whereas it doesn’t really feel like yesterday that he was a child, it does really feel like yesterday that he turned 10! That 12 months simply flew by.
Birch and I picked him up from faculty with a bunch of Star Wars balloons and headed dwelling for a scavenger hunt for presents. His predominant reward was a Meta Quest 2 digital actuality headset. He’s been speaking about it for months, and couldn’t wait to play Gorilla Tag!
He additionally received matching Nike Frees along with his brother as a part of the #nike365 partnership I’m doing. These are his 4th or fifth pair, and they’re the BEST athletic sneakers for teenagers! No laces and straightforward to slide on.
Dinner at Public
Public is Mazen’s favourite restaurant, and he LOVES the steampot. It’s a mixture of large crab legs, shrimp, mussels, corn, potatoes, and sausage.
We additionally shared oysters – M tried two uncooked! He says he prefers them roasted. We additionally shared an heirloom and burrata tomato salad.
And key lime pie for dessert <3
Household Occasion
We additionally had a bit household celebration for him with the grandparents and it was the primary time we entertained in our new kitchen!
I’d say the kitchen carried out very properly. After all we gathered across the island.
We had a traditional cookout with burgers, corn, watermelon and tomato/basil/burrata.
And Nona made an excellent key lime pie for dessert (Mazen’s favourite!) Whipped cream on prime and a Biscoff / graham crust. Should get the recipe!
We’ll be celebrating extra on the seaside this weekend! Sure it’s late within the season for a seaside journey, nevertheless it’s a Donne fam custom!
Extra Household Dinners on the Porch
Pizza night time!
Steak by way of Blue Apron
Additionally loving the Maker Wines! I shared this one with Ellen for a porch cling. Get 15% off with my hyperlink anytime!
Breakfast Meals
Look what I introduced again! I noticed it at Dealer Joe’s and I feel the Biscoff in the important thing lime pie set off a craving. Sure it’s extra like dessert than breakfast, however dang is it good!
Protein Granola
I’ve been loving this protein granola Cascadian Farm despatched me as a pattern. It’s made with pea protein and the cluster crunch is nice.
Bodos bagel with egg and cheese from Thomas!
Different happenings in da home
This little man comes as much as my room each morning as quickly as he wakes up. We snuggle actual onerous!
He additionally had an enormous day final week: BIRCH was the Wordle! It has been my beginning phrase earlier than, however alas I began with one thing else. I did get a 3 and was glad I didn’t get an X on at the present time!
Work Laborious, Play Laborious
Thomas continues to be onerous at work getting the outside of our home to hurry. You possibly can see the half-built trash can storage deck he’s engaged on. And there’s mulch and filth everywhere in the yard to get the spots we excavated again to grass. Birch helped him unload a number of the supplies.
Take a look at that gaze of admiration!
Gradual Move Faucet
Additionally on the house entrance, our kitchen faucet – what a headache! It stopped working at full pace earlier than we moved out and we forgot about it, so after we moved again in, it was nonetheless not working proper (shock, shock). Water comes out, nevertheless it’s solely a drizzle and you must transfer the deal with backwards and forwards 10 occasions to get it to full move for laundry dishes.
We thought it was the valve and we spent just a few hours one night attempting to get the valve changed ourselves (this is the reason usually we’d simply name a plumber! Time is cash!) nonetheless after chatting with Kohler help, we lastly received it. However seems that wasn’t even the issue! They decided that our faucet is simply damaged. Fortunately they’re sending a substitute totally free! I actually hope that is the final move-in hiccup now we have for some time!
On A Quiet Avenue
Lastly, I simply completed this e-book and it was SO GOOD!!!! Somewhat creepy, a bit thriller. Straightforward to grasp and observe. Stored me up studying previous bedtime as a result of I couldn’t put it down. All of the issues I search for in a e-book! I simply began the brand new Elin Hilderbrand a few blogger – 5 Star Weekend. Excited to dig in!
