The Scuba Man

Last week, my youngest brought home a paper saying he needs to career shadow someone at their job for an assignment in one of his classes. I suggested he go to McDonald's or somewhere easy that he enjoys going to. But he said he wants to be a Lego designer or the scuba diving man. There are no Lego designers that I know of in our small town so we are going to have to pass on that option. We live in the middle of a desert but thank goodness there is one scuba shop in town. (How it stays in business I would love to know!) Anyway, we talked to the owner and he said Ken could shadow him. We also decided to have him do his pool work to certify for his scuba license that day. Ever since he did the scuba trial when we were in the Bahamas last fall, Ken has been bugging us to let him certify. The last two days we have gone over all of the online scuba class lessons and now he is ready to do the pool work and hopefully pass the test. He loves sharks and dolphins and maybe this could lead to a career one day. Who knows!

Dar went to San Carlos, Mexico with his Dad last month for a humanitarian trip with his rotary group and found a dolphin therapy place there. We really wanted to take Ken to do the two day therapy over spring break, but of course the facility doesn't do the dolphin therapy in April or May. So maybe sometime this summer or fall we can make a quick trip to see how it will go. I'm not sure how but there have been studies that dolphins can really help kids with autism. No wonder he always loves to see dolphins!

Tomorrow we are going to one of our good friends, daughters baptisms. I get to take brownies to the party afterwards. Brownies are not one of my specialties. Even when I add an extra egg to make them more cake like, they still turn out gooey. I found this recipe on line and hopefully it will be the magic one!

Best Brownies

Preheat oven to 350*. Grease and flour and 8 in. square pan. In a large saucepan, melt 1/2C. butter. Remove from heat and stir in 1C. sugar, 2 eggs and 1t. vanilla. Beat in 1/3C. cocoa, 1/2C. flour, 1/4t. salt and 1/4t. baking powder. Spread this batter evenly in the pan and bake for 30-36 minutes.

To make frosting, combine 3T. butter, 3T. cocoa, 1T. honey, 1t. vanilla and 1C. powdered sugar. Add in a tiny bit of milk or half and half until it is creamy and spreadable. Frost the brownies while they are warm.