Gastronomic Tour of beautiful France

First off - for those of you that don't know - Gastronomic is the study of the food and culture.   My oldest son - Joey - is currently touring France with his group from the Restaurant School of Walnut Hill College.  It sure sounds like he is having a fabulous time.   One of their dinners over in France consisted of Ballotting of Rabbit with Foie Gras, Baby Rack of Pork and Chocolate Dome with Caramel Ice Cream.  He is having the opportunity to visit vineyards, learning the method of creating Champagne, touring the caves and of course plenty of taste testing of wines and champagne.  Another dinner consisted of Pike with a Champagne butter sauce, an intermezzo of sorbet made with Marc de Champagne, chicken with sauce supreme, a puree of Celeriac, potatoes Daupinoise, Almond pastry with fresh raspberries and creme brulee.  I wish i could say these words let alone even taste testing some of them.  I wish I was with him but then again he is probably having a better time than mom tagging along.

Continues to do well

M continues to do well tolerating his cast to much of my surprise.  It has almost become commonplace now that he can't use his right hand although he continues to bang walls and other objects with it when he becomes mad.  School has allowed him to type instead of writing and like his teacher said - who ever knew one could type so fast with a cast on.  Life goes on.

Wow!

I forgot I even had this blog -- only until I was searching for something completely unrelated and I came upon my own blog in the search. Now how cool is that!

I won't even try to summarize the last 7 months -- I will try to update regularly for my resolution for 2010.

As of today Matt is sporting a new look for the next 4 weeks. He injured his thumb back in December catching a football his brother through at him. I figured he just jammed it. He was able to use it to play his electronic games (playstation, gameboy etc), had no problems slamming his hand down when mad etc. He did complain off and on that it hurt - more at night during bedtime routine so I figured just an excuse to withhold getting to sleep. Because of his continued complaining I figured I would just get it checked into. Off to the docs he went and they ordered an x-ray. The x-ray revealed a fracture at the base of the thumb where it meets the wrist. Made an appointment with the ortho doc and had it cast which was an ordeal in itself.

He decided on a multi color cast - red, white and blue in honor of his uncle who is currently serving in Iraq. Picking his cast colors was an adventure in itself that took almost 10 minutes from trying decide on a single color, then 2 colors, and finally settling on this one. I do have to admit he hasn't complained once yet and it's been 4 full days he has had it on. Matt is very determined to accomplish a task even if it is with his left hand. I do believe the challenge will come when it becomes itchy. Time will tell.

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