Post by karenfh on May 22, 2007 3:02:39 GMT -5
I was so excited today, when I came home from work. Package on my porch, yep, my new Lot-O is here!
I cleared the table and was starting to open it; then my son came home.
"You forgot," he informed me. Yep, I had forgotten. He needed to make apple crisp tonight for his demonstration speech tomorrow. (Should I mention that my mother is his speech teacher? And he is not doing well in her class?)
Can you see where this went tonight?
So, we finally have some very nice apple crisp sitting on the stove. He made a double batch for the class to eat, LOL.
He also has all his other ingredients measured out, ready to go for tomorrow. He did practice his presentation, a bit. He needs to cut his time from about 4 hours to 4-7 minutes.
He's pretty confident that he can make this work.
And he definately does know how to do it all, because all I did the whole time was answer questions and tell him where to find all the utensils. His class, his grade, his idea, his responsibility.
Love him bunches, but holy cow! It was SOOO hard to just sit back and let him do it! I guess we both learned something tonight.
So, it's 1:15 a.m., and I finally get to open my package! And I don't even get to snitch any apple crisp.
Ya know what, tho? I don't really mind.
I think he finally GOT IT tonight, at age 16, on May 21, 2007, at 11:48 p.m. after 3 1/2 hours of apple crisp. He looked at me, after all his little delaying tactics and other bullsh-- did not work, and actually said he would never have finished if I had not been sitting there. He was also pretty proud of the final product, when it came out of the oven.
Eureka!
Thanks for listening, and I hope this gives other parents of snarly teenagers a reason for sitting in their kitchen while those kids make a mess and accomplish something.
I cleared the table and was starting to open it; then my son came home.
"You forgot," he informed me. Yep, I had forgotten. He needed to make apple crisp tonight for his demonstration speech tomorrow. (Should I mention that my mother is his speech teacher? And he is not doing well in her class?)
Can you see where this went tonight?
So, we finally have some very nice apple crisp sitting on the stove. He made a double batch for the class to eat, LOL.
He also has all his other ingredients measured out, ready to go for tomorrow. He did practice his presentation, a bit. He needs to cut his time from about 4 hours to 4-7 minutes.
He's pretty confident that he can make this work.
And he definately does know how to do it all, because all I did the whole time was answer questions and tell him where to find all the utensils. His class, his grade, his idea, his responsibility.
Love him bunches, but holy cow! It was SOOO hard to just sit back and let him do it! I guess we both learned something tonight.
So, it's 1:15 a.m., and I finally get to open my package! And I don't even get to snitch any apple crisp.
Ya know what, tho? I don't really mind.
I think he finally GOT IT tonight, at age 16, on May 21, 2007, at 11:48 p.m. after 3 1/2 hours of apple crisp. He looked at me, after all his little delaying tactics and other bullsh-- did not work, and actually said he would never have finished if I had not been sitting there. He was also pretty proud of the final product, when it came out of the oven.
Eureka!
Thanks for listening, and I hope this gives other parents of snarly teenagers a reason for sitting in their kitchen while those kids make a mess and accomplish something.
! Did you take some pics of the chief cooker and his creation?
Love him dearly though.
