Daydreaming while waiting impatiently!

[tortoise]

That is a gorgeous pie!

 

[hqueen13]

Cute! That math is way above my memory, lol i suppose i probably learned it once.... but I've long forgotten!

 

[Britesea]

I didn't make that pie, but I plan to - one of these days

 

[tortoise]

DS had a good schoolwork day today. A little bit of reluctance with the review questions in his English lessons. But everything else was new material with no repetition. That seems to be the magic solution to most of his school and attitude problems. As soon as he finished schoolwork, we went out to get a redbox movie and a bag of candy for him. He had a bit of a meltdown after being corrected for a string of careless, messy behaviors in the evening. DH is NOT fond of his tendency to fling food onto the kitchen carpet. (Don't ask me who thought it was a good idea to put carpet in a kitchen!)

DS recovered himself by calming down while cleaning up his craft stuff. DH went to work since he is on call tonight. Then we watched the movie. Boxtrolls. Cute movie. 3.75 out of 5 stars from me.

I spent a lot of time today reading about reversing underachieving and improving self-efficacy in children. I applied one strategy today and it helps. I have him state the behavior he is doing and then ask him "Does that help you reach your goal?" Also talk about what his goals are. It works better than telling him to focus, or to sit still, or whatever. Hopefully he'll start to self-regulate someday.

I feel less stressed by having a plan in place. I need to encourage DH to pick his battles. I don't know how to do that without it sounding offensive or aggressive. Waiting for the right words to come.

DH is excited about the weather, longer days, and the snow starting to melt! He has been looking at seed catalogs and making a mental to-do list for farm chores as soon as snow melts and the ground thaws a bit. Another warm(ish) day like this - 33 degrees ABOVE zero! - and we'll have to change the bedding in the chicken coop again.

 

[tortoise]

It's a beautiful day! 40 degrees and sunny!

DS finished an extra school attendance day today, great attitude! He's getting excited and pushing ahead with only 28 attendance days left before summer vacation!

DS and DH have been outside all afternoon. DH scooped out the chicken coop. I've been having a good day for tolerating movement. I walked my spoiled rotten ram lamb! He is so affectionate! Love him! It feels so good to get outside and out to the barn!

DH found a trick for peeling hard boiled eggs. Put 1" of water in a quart jar, put the egg in and shake it to crack the shell. It makes peeling farm eggs more tolerable. This means dying hard boiled Easter eggs is possible! Has anyone tried dying brown eggs?

 

[Britesea]

I'll have to check out the egg peeling trick and see how it compares to our system. I peel just a bit to get things started, then slip a spoon between the shell and the egg and rotate it around the egg. It's the best way I've found so far for dealing with egg that wants to stick to the shell.

 

[tortoise]

Thanks for that tip too! I will try it! Some of the eggs were still hard to peel, but nothing like our first attempt at peeling farm eggs!

 

[hqueen13]

Huh, interesting on the egg peeling. I do know that fresh farm eggs don't peel all that good. 2 week old eggs do better, but then you'd have to actually wait for 2 weeks and not eat them! Lol

 

[tortoise]

Our first attempt at peeling farm eggs, we aged them 4 weeks before cooking them! I thought for sure they would be easy. Nope!

 

[wyoDreamer]

For ease of peeling, I found that draining the boiling water off the eggs, then shake the pan a little to crack the shells, and then drop the eggs into ice water works best for me.