Goodness, msbelle! At least he's down now. Criminey.
And bummer, sara. Oh well.
I love risotto, but I make it really rarely. The one I do typically is an acorn squash one that is seriously yum. But I need to branch out. I've tried a couple of variants, but with only mediocre results. And risotto should not be mediocre.
This week is going to be crazy for us. A pastor who just quit his job is going to come out to our most remote location tomorrow. Then D. is headed out for the buffalo. Then he's got his spring orchestra concert on Saturday. And apparently he's also thrown a party where he's cooking at someone else's house on Sunday. Which I didn't know about until one of our friends was all, so we're still on for Sunday at the Ray's and I was all, buh?
Busy.
Ugh, msbelle.
I need to try making risotto. I've never even tasted it, but it sounds delish.
It's totally yum. At some point, ita, you should come over and have sweet potato risotto at our house!
shower done. I forgot the hilarity part of the evening. At some point in my use of skills learned via supernanny, he actually is minding me and staying in his room (the only other option is a bath and he refuses that) prior to bedtime. He brings me a note at one point - it reads. (spelling corrected) "You are really mean - and that means war". I think I might frame it.
That sounds great, Kat.
I'm perplexed by Bumpits. In too many cases it's creating a weird extended forehead slope. Like they'd been doing forehead binding. And the TV ad is even worse. Big hair is back?
It definitely needs to be saved!
Oh msbelle. At least you can see the humor in it.
I cleaned up a good portion of the floor where the oil spilled tonight and made an apple pie. I should have really made something for lunches this week, but a pie was more fun.
Now that I have fully calmed and reflected, I should note that the hitting and kicking did not hurt, which is really telling. It was measured and he was never out of control. Mad, but not ballistic. The note is also really telling, it is communicating the anger in another medium - HUGE! and shows him controlled enough to write out things, not just hard scribble on paper or rip it to shreds (both are things we try getting him to do instead of hitting).
I am more bothered by the lying about and hiding of homework. Not more upset by, but more bothered by.
Everything in our dynamic has a short term thing and a long term thing.
