Remote Control Pizza

In September, my youngest son moved to Bullhead City, Arizona to be with his girlfriend who had gone out there to accept an exciting new job. Although he is a marvelously skilled mechanic he has yet to find a job out there, so he has been doing a lot of the cooking and (hopefully!) other household chores.

Yesterday he called me to ask about the necessary ingredients for my homemade pizza crust recipe. We chatted for a while, and then I emailed him the actual recipe after I got home from my craft fair.

A couple of hours later, he called me again with a question about measuring cups. I answered that question to his satisfaction (and he added a set of dry ingredient measuring cups to his next shopping list) and then as I heard rummaging noises over the phone, he commented, "Oh, wow, I don't think we have a rolling pin either."

I thought about it for a moment, then asked, "Do you have an empty beer bottle you could scrub and use instead?"

"Well, no, but I could have one in about two minutes," he replied, laughing. "You know, Mom, it's scary but I was actually thinking about that exact same thing when you mentioned it."

I agreed, and we chatted a while longer, discussing his plans for the pizza. Instead of our regular recipe using tomato sauce, onions, peppers, mushrooms, sausage, pepperoni, and cheese (and sometimes black and/or green olives) he was planning to use chicken and an Alfredo type sauce with mostly Parmesan cheese. He also was going to try making a stuffed crust. Then he commented that he should probably quit talking and start cooking and hung up.

Later I got an email saying that the pizza turned out well and they both liked it. It doesn't get much better than that!

It Isn't All About Knitting!

In addition to having 40+ years of knitting experience, I have also become a nationally certified Child Passenger Safety Technician, learning a great deal about child passenger safety, crash dynamics, and many other child transportation issues. After I became certified I had an opportunity to enroll in the supplemental Special Needs Transportation training, which I also found extremely valuable. My (grown) kids will tell you that when the topic of car seats arises for whatever reason I can and do tell anyone more than they ever wanted to know about car seats. When I'm not knitting, as likely as not I'm doing something car seat related (and when I AM knitting, I may very well be knitting in front of the computer reading car seat safety forums).

When my grandson, the light of my life, was born, I helped his parents to make sure that he was the safest he could possibly be riding in all of our various vehicles. I coerced strongly encouraged them to keep him rear-facing to the limits of his convertible seat, since rear-facing is so much safer. When he outgrew the convertible seats, I bought him higher weight harnessing seats for each of their vehicles because he was much too young to move into a booster seat at that time.

More recently, I was blessed to win a deluxe higher-weight harnessed seat in a Facebook drawing, and I agreed to submit a review of the seat. This week that review was published in Carseat Blog.

Now the review has generated more questions, and it looks like I'll be submitting another Carseat Blog post soon.

Meanwhile, the knitting continues, even if I'm not keeping up with the postings.............