breakfast, more ice skating, and holiday windows
morgana and i are always trying to entice chanda to eat more oatmeal. her favorite, supposedly, is steel cut oats. this morning i served them with brown sugar and buttermilk. they were very good, and chanda ate . . a little. (sigh.)
janet and i were up early to go . . yes! ice skating again. we're at bryant park a lot this year!
since another homeschooling mom was putting together ice skating lessons at the pond, morgana and chanda are attending the ten week session. i can't believe we're committed to be at the rink every thursday for ten weeks in a row . . oh well. they've been wanting to do this for a number of years now. i hope it helps them become more balanced and relaxed on their skates. morgana has been obsessed with learning . . ummm . . figures and brackets ever since reading noel streatfeild's skating shoes a few years ago.
tessa is also attending. she's their skating shoes comrade-in-arms. they go on and on about brackets, brackets, brackets. if i didn't tune them out half the time, i'd go mad. ummm, am i supposed to admit to that? ("yes dear, you do a bracket on the outside of the blade, and a turn on the inside of the blade, now will you please get out your latin and do the next lesson?")
here is everyone on the ice. i actually didn't get a picture of the lesson because i was . . skating! which is a good thing.
my favorite part about today was walking over to lord and taylor's to see their holiday windows. i always love how they fix them up.
we said good-bye to cindi and tessa after seeing the windows, and m and c and i went home to see:
more windows! jackson pharmacy, the small mom and pop pharmacy in our neighborhood that is still hanging on despite being surrounded by rite aid and duane reade, have their christmas display up also.
happy holidays!
morgana and i are always trying to entice chanda to eat more oatmeal. her favorite, supposedly, is steel cut oats. this morning i served them with brown sugar and buttermilk. they were very good, and chanda ate . . a little. (sigh.)
janet and i were up early to go . . yes! ice skating again. we're at bryant park a lot this year!
since another homeschooling mom was putting together ice skating lessons at the pond, morgana and chanda are attending the ten week session. i can't believe we're committed to be at the rink every thursday for ten weeks in a row . . oh well. they've been wanting to do this for a number of years now. i hope it helps them become more balanced and relaxed on their skates. morgana has been obsessed with learning . . ummm . . figures and brackets ever since reading noel streatfeild's skating shoes a few years ago.
tessa is also attending. she's their skating shoes comrade-in-arms. they go on and on about brackets, brackets, brackets. if i didn't tune them out half the time, i'd go mad. ummm, am i supposed to admit to that? ("yes dear, you do a bracket on the outside of the blade, and a turn on the inside of the blade, now will you please get out your latin and do the next lesson?")
here is everyone on the ice. i actually didn't get a picture of the lesson because i was . . skating! which is a good thing.
my favorite part about today was walking over to lord and taylor's to see their holiday windows. i always love how they fix them up.
we said good-bye to cindi and tessa after seeing the windows, and m and c and i went home to see:
more windows! jackson pharmacy, the small mom and pop pharmacy in our neighborhood that is still hanging on despite being surrounded by rite aid and duane reade, have their christmas display up also.
happy holidays!
I'm with Chanda. There is not much you can do to oatmeal to make it good to me - I think it is the texture. There are tons of other good hot cereals (with more palitable textures to me) - stone ground grits, Bobs red mill gluten free might tasty cereal. Both my girls like oatmeal, though it took girl #2 longer to warm up to it.
ReplyDeleteAll your ice skating is wonderful!
Well - I'm with Morgana. I loooooove oatmeals!
ReplyDeleteOatmeals for breakfast makes a great day.
I always eat the Quaker´s oatmeals and put on raisins and milk. (But I don't make porridge. I eat them raw!)
hello!
ReplyDeletechanda will eat a little bit of grits and also cream of rice cereal. i guess she is more like christine, she eats oats raw in the summer on yogurt, but not so much in winter.
i make a nice five grain cereal from cynthia lear's "feeding the whole family." but it's mainly morgana and i who eat that. i'll keep trying though!
(maybe i'll try the bob's gluten free .. i think my coop may have it.)