Day 19: Weekly Recap

A Win: Last Saturday, I snapped a pic of the sun waking up the trees on my morning hike and posted it to Instagram. I sloughed through many a mud pit to get there and hashtagged my bean boots. Yesterday, LL Bean liked my photo! I think we’re done here.

Some Learning: Figures that are the same shape and size are congruent. Figures that are the same shape but different size are similar.

An update: Ezra is a self-proclaimed pescatarian, though the only fish he eats is tuna from a can mixed with mayo. Also, he eats every other kind of meat.

Restocked: Chicken legs are back! I will be sheet panning them with sweet potatoes, cauliflower, and green olives tonight. The Troy boys will eat one of those things.

What’s Working: Family dinners. I set out the spread (and try to make sure everyone likes something in it). I tell them they may choose what they like and not say anything mean about what they don’t like. I remind them dinner is the last thing they’re eating before breakfast the next morning. Which is all to say that Jess tried potatoes (in non-fry form) for the first time since he was 3.

Google Love: I’ve started buying non-homogenized milk from our local co-op, and Jess was crying foul about the floating bits of cream.

“Why are you doing this?” he asked.

I told him to make like a sleuth and figure out why. He Googled it and tried the milk again with a more open mind. He is now drinking too much of it.

Accidentally … I drank a whole French Press of coffee the other morning before Matt woke up.

A Loss: I tried to fast one day this week – an earnest attempt not to be tried again until I’m not around the kids all day so they don’t grow up to misconstrue “fasting” as “yelling.”

Everyday: Tommy asks for an ice cream cone.