A 4 year old is making me look bad

Our garden overfloweth with tomatoes... we have picked over 120 Roma tomatoes in the last week!  Someone told the CFO that we could freeze them whole and then use them for salsa this winter, so we are going to give that a try.

Monday morning harvest of 40+

I was sitting at work Monday morning when my phone rang, the caller ID said it was a friend of mine, who is the husband of one of the CFO’s co-workers.  I answered it expecting to hear his voice,  but I was greeted by the voice of his 4 year old son instead.  I immediately started to wonder why he was calling me.  Perhaps he was playing with dad’s phone and I was the person he ended up dialing after pushing random buttons.

However, as soon as he started talking, I knew this call was no accident.  He started rambling about how I needed to go to the store, buy flowers for the CFO and bring them to her at work.  When I got to the building, I should get on on the elevator and hit the 5 button to go up to the floor where her office was.  There was a lot of other toddler chatter that I wasn’t able to make out, but I got the gist of what he was saying.  His parents and the CFO all seemed to be quite entertained by his instructions, as I could hear them all laughing in the back ground.

I know that he occasionally decides that he needs to take flowers to his mom, so his dad takes him and his brother to buy flowers and then they deliver them to her at her office.  I also know that he likes to go visit the CFO in her office while they are there… he’s a sweet kid and, for some reason, he and his brother seem to really like us.  That is probably because we always (and I mean ALWAYS) eat pizza if we hang out with their parents.  If they have pizza and we’re not there, he asks wif the CFO and I are coming for dinner.  

He eventually stopped talking and passed the phone to his dad, who apologized for the interruption.  I told him to tell his son to stop making me look bad by bringing his mom flowers all the time.  I guess that I could start paying him to deliver them to the CFO too… However, I prefer to buy her live plants that we can put in the yard and enjoy for years to come, instead of buying cut flowers that will be dead in a few days.  There I go again, being all practical instead of romantic... 

 

We didn't do a whole lot over the weekend, the CFO was busy preparing for the first week of classes.  We did have some friends over for dinner, games and smores on Saturday night.  We introduced them to "Scott Style" Smores, which use two soft bake chocolate chip cookies to sandwich the toasted marshmallow instead of the traditional graham crackers and a piece of chocolate. It is WAY better than the traditional style.