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Sascot! How much hair do you have and how thick is it?! See, you should have short thin bunny rabbit hair like me! No hair dryer necessary. Hope you feel better soon. Shall I send some cute medics your way?

Ang: whole aisle...ain't that the truth! And now there is that big contest from one of the manufacturers for a new flavor...I think there are 4 or 5 in the running. They are making them in limited production the one that sells the most wins. Can you believe th obesession...I avoid that aisle like the plague...you know what they say...can't have just one (bag that is!)
 
Oh no Sascot! :eek2: I hope the injury heals soon!

BUT! As the saying goes...there is always someone worse off...don't know if you have seen this before but it is hilarious, just don't pull a muscle!...

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:ylol: :rof: Dusty, my poor back hurt with all that laughing! A bit better today - hopefully back to normal wine consumption within a few days :lol2:
 
Have had a bit of an accident prone few days too Sascot!! Burnt my hand and had my hair pulled badly at work, now can't move my neck!!! Ooops, love BBQ chips though! :ylol:
 

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I opened the oven at work and it was just the steam!! This is a picture 24 hours after at minor injuries, they cut the blisters off! Now redressed and have to leave it for 4 days before getting it redressed. Doesn't hurt now, but hurt loads at the time!
 
Wow - that is some burn!! I am just impressed you managed to get the photo on there, never mind how big it is - still can't manage that myself :lol2:. Pity you don't live nearby - I could have fixed your sore neck! Too hard to massage my own back though :ylol:
 
OMG that burn looks awful...feel better soon!!

And Dusty LMFAO at still looking at his thumb...I have seen that before but laugh hysterically every time!!
 
Niks! How did you do that?! Horrible! How did you get your hair pulled? You are not having a good week! Yikes!

Dusty! That was a real LOL! When I saw the picture of a thumb, at first I was wondering if it had to do with your post! LOL
 
Lol Carol, just having one of those weeks!

I work with Severely Autistic young people in a Residential College. They have complex learning difficulties and can be severely challenging. Having said that I love it and wouldn't work anywhere else! They are amazing :ybiggrin:
 
Ouch Niks!
but I love that you love your job ! It takes a special kind of person to do what you do :hug:

Dusty..oh Dusty....LMAO !!
 
Sascot and Niks...ouch! :eek2:

Niks, better go for a tight bun! They can't get ahold of that. I had my hair pulled once at the teen unit of the psychiatric hospital. I was taking a class at the University and had to work there. Guy pulled my hair every week!

:ylol::ylol: Good one Dusty!!
 
Just realise I was kidding myself, thinking I could understand my middle daughter math homework. She said she studying circles and starting telling pi =180 degrees, pi / 2 =90 degrees and from there it just more confusing.
 
I don't know what ^^^that means Catherine but I learned more from helping my kids with their homework than I did in 18 years of school! But math is a different story…in many instances, I can show them how I learned to solve problems but they have learned new methods so my old ways just don't cut it!
 
There are 3 types of math in year 11 & 12., general/further, methods, & specialist.

Sarah is doing further which I can kind of understand which is purposely the easy math.

Rachel doesnot do that well at that math but she is doing methods and specialist. This maths is well pass my understanding of math.
 
I don't remember learning radians at school. They're pretty straight forward and I'm sure you'd grasp the idea pretty quickly if you looked it up but I don't think it was something we we're taught.

I've noticed there is a much bigger emphasis on geometry in the maths the boys are learning than there was when we we're at school.
 
Right, maybe I could get that, but then you add cos & sin which I didn't understand the first time around.
 
khanacademy.org It is my math life saver. Videos, step by step on tons of math and it is the "new" way they are taught Dexky. We also like algebrahelp.com
 
At some point either during high school or university there are going to be some things they are stronger at than we are. If she's comfortable doing her homework without help and is getting good grades I wouldn't worry about not understanding the work.

If she needs help, it might be time to consider tutoring.
 
She has applied to be accepted into the tutoring program at school, the tutors are Monash uni students.

Specialist math she averaging 70%, managed to get almost 100% for one unit and bearly pass the other.

We has school interviews last night managed to complete 17 interviews in just under 2 hours.
 
The tutoring program sounds excellent. Hopefully she'll be accepted for that.
Be good to pull up her scores in those other couple of topics.

It's always a good sign when you get through interviews quickly, our interviews can be exercises in public shame, they are held in the halls with rows of teachers at desk, so there is no such thing as privacy.

I had a long wait to speak to Owen's history teacher because the school Superintendant (overall principle for both junior and senior school) was ahead of me in the queue and getting a serious blasting about his sons effort levels.
 
Our interviews were held in the classrooms but you know it's not going to be good when the teacher says 'oh, you're Emily's mom?!?' :yfaint:

I'm sure you've all found this but, very often, a teacher's style can make all the difference. The teacher (grade 9 history) above told me that Emily was constantly on her 'wall of shame' :eek: (lo and behold, Em's name was on the board! :lol:) because she was always asking questions and taking teacher off track of her lesson plan, didn't allow the teacher to finish the lesson before she'd start putting up her hand, would give her opinion on something being taught, etc. (Emily is not shy! :lol:), yet, during the same interviews, I met with her science and english teachers and they said 'great kid, always participates in the class discussions, encourages class discussions by offering opinions, science teacher said she'd gauge the class understanding of material by how often Emily was asking questions...

First time I realized how the exact same characteristics/actions could be viewed so differently - positive by some teachers and negative by others. Needless to say, Em did not like that history class, nor the teacher and didn't do well in her marks!
 
Tesscorm, we were in a similar situation when C was younger. Apparently, C had a hundred questions about each lesson and the teacher was confused because she could tell by his questions he understood the material so she thought he was doing it to make trouble and gave him a set number of pennies, he could ask 1 question per penny and when he was out of pennies, questions had to end. But all of his other teachers enjoyed C and said his ability to discuss class topics and ask insightful questions about what they were reading was great.
 
That's funny about the pennies! That so would've stressed Emily to know she had a limit (she probably would've been asking me for pennies before school)! :lol:

I thought it was great that Emily wasn't afraid to ask questions BUT, to be fair to that teacher, I did tell Em that classes didn't revolve around HER questions and sometimes, she did have to let the teacher finish before waving her arm, jumping up and down in her seat and crying 'I don't get it!' :eek:

Funnily enough, once Emily was out of that teacher's class, that teacher actually loved Emily and was a great supporter of her in some extra-curricular projects/activities! (I guess as long as SHE didn't actually have to deal with Em! :lol:)
 
I think sometimes that how willing teachers are to discuss and debate there subject with students and respond to questions gives a lot of insight into:
1. How well they know and understand the topics they are teaching (above & beyond what's in the text book.
2. Whether or not they are passionate about the material that they teach.
For the teacher who loves his or her subject and knows it well questioning kids can be an absolute delight to teach for those who don't I think they can be incredibly hard work.
 
That's what I thought too Maree. This particular teacher of Em's was older and my impression was that, although she seemed to love history, she was very set in her ways and had a rigid lesson plan for each day. Em asking questions and, perhaps, taking the discussion in a different direction flustered or frustrated the teacher; maybe resulting in her having to change up the next lesson.
 
Yes, Maree. I agree with you!! My daughter had a math teacher that was absolutely awesome. And til this day, my daughter who is a junior in college will call this math teacher if she runs into a problem or concept that bogs her down. She says noone can explain it like this teacher.
 
They *do* exist!
I took the kids to Ontario this week and almost fell over laughing when I saw this!!
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izzi'smom said:
They *do* exist!
I took the kids to Ontario this week and almost fell over laughing when I saw this!!
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We went to Ottawa for an Ice Hockey Tournament years ago when my boys were young and played.

Beaver Tails are AMAZING!!! Lol, we did laugh though :lol2:
 
Niks, were you at the Bell Capital tournament? My son was in that years ago... it's a huge international hockey tournament held in Ottawa. There were teams there from UK, China, Russia, Finland, etc. that's why I'm thinking maybe it was the same tournament.

mmm, craving beaver tails now! I have a recipe for beaver tails using pizza dough, I'll see if I can find it and will post it.
 
Tesscorm said:
Niks, were you at the Bell Capital tournament? My son was in that years ago... it's a huge international hockey tournament held in Ottawa. There were teams there from UK, China, Russia, Finland, etc. that's why I'm thinking maybe it was the same tournament.

mmm, craving beaver tails now! I have a recipe for beaver tails using pizza dough, I'll see if I can find it and will post it.
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Ryan is nearly 22 now! We went there when he was 7! We played lots of little rink games, it was an amazing place and the Canadian people who hosted all the games were incredible! We all had so much fun :lol2: Jaime was only 4.

Our guys went and met the Ottawa Senetors, they were allowed to go in the locker room. We saw a NHL game too, I know Colorado Avalanche played with Patrick Roy between the pipes! Ryan's FAVOURITE netminder, he was beside himself :D.. Good times xx

I remember all of us skating the canal, which is where we found the Beavertails!!! Such an awesome experience xx
 
Stephen was just a bit older when he went, I think maybe 9 or 10. This tournament is only for the younger age groups. Stephen's team ended up winning the tournament for their level and their final game was played in the Scotia Centre/Corel Centre (think that's what its called?? - where the Senators play), they used the Ottawa Senators change room, their bench, they had the lights, buzzer, etc. during the game just like a real NHL game (only thing missing were the fans! :lol:).

Something I don't think we'll ever forget!

One day, I'll have to skate the canal too!!! :ybatty:
 
Back to your discussion on parent-teacher meetings. Our school assigns times - each parent gets 15 minutes with their kids' teachers. We have 3 kids there (It is K-12th grade!), but we had 4 there at the beginning of the year. Anyway, they always scheduled our conferences back to back. We'd have 15 minutes then a bell would ring and we'd be expected to be at the next teacher's room then switch again, etc. If one parent goes long in front of you, your time gets cut off. If you go long, then your next child's teacher will be waiting and you'll lose out on that conference. Needless to say, I didn't find it very helpful. It was too rushed and not much productive info ever passed. I was pretty frustrated until my husband told me not to worry because if there was a problem we could schedule a meeting with that child's teacher any time. Starting in 7th grade the parents meet with the student and all their teachers in a round table discussion. These are okay. They are student-led.
 
Ours were similar, Carol... 15 minutes and the buzzer would ring...

Beaver Tail recipe

Pizza dough
3 tbsp sunflower oil or as needed
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup cinnamon

Tear of a small portion of pizza dough (depending on size you'd like). Roll out thin in a beaver tail shape. Repeat for as many tails as you'd like, lay flattened beaver tails on floured tray.

Combine sugar and cinnamon in shallow wide dish.

In skillet, heat oil. Once hot, add a 'beaver tail' and brown. When brown on the bottom side, flip and brown the other side.

Remove beaver tail and drain on layered paper towels. While still hot, brush with butter and dip one side in sugar/cinnamon mixture.

Not sure this recipe is clean, healthy or acceptable under any diet! :eek: But... Enjoy! :D
 
Tesscorm said:
Ours were similar, Carol... 15 minutes and the buzzer would ring...

Beaver Tail recipe

Pizza dough
3 tbsp sunflower oil or as needed
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup cinnamon

Tear of a small portion of pizza dough (depending on size you'd like). Roll out thin in a beaver tail shape. Repeat for as many tails as you'd like, lay flattened beaver tails on floured tray.

Combine sugar and cinnamon in shallow wide dish.

In skillet, heat oil. Once hot, add a 'beaver tail' and brown. When brown on the bottom side, flip and brown the other side.

Remove beaver tail and drain on layered paper towels. While still hot, brush with butter and dip one side in sugar/cinnamon mixture.

Not sure this recipe is clean, healthy or acceptable under any diet! :eek: But... Enjoy! :D
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Glad to hear these are not made of real beavers' tails! They sound tastey! Maybe we'll try a gluten-free variety...
 
Mmmmm, just chiming in for beaver tails! I never thought of making them - thankfully -otherwise the kids would be requesting one daily and that wouldn't be good :)
 
I've actually never made them myself... I went to a cooking demo/class once and they made the beaver tails using this recipe, so I know the recipe is good... but, when I've had beaver tails, it's been at Niagara Falls or Wonderland (amusement park), etc. Luckily, they're not available at every street corner! :eek:
 
If fried dough, butter and sugar wasn't bad enough^^^. Let's add chocolate frosting and Reese's Pieces!! I'm glad someone explained what beaver tails are though:)
 
Bahaha at the chart, Dusty! Stealing! Dex, I think you were mia for the discussion regarding local foods...it was enlightening!
 
Oh my!!! I've never seen a beaver tail like that!!! :ylol:

Dusty, love those!!! I think the winebulance is in front of Crohnsinct's house! :eek:

:lol:
 
Yeah! the boys will be home in a couple of hours! They have spent the week with their grandparents volunteering at an animal sanctuary in Utah. The first couple of days was great, got so much stuff done, stayed in my jammies all day one day, but with hubby at work and the boys being gone it was very quiet around here
 
Sounds like the boys will come home with plenty of stories, an animal sanctuary, how cool!

I've been productive the last few days as well, C has been enjoying hanging out with friends and now spring break starts so he is headed out of town with friends and I have a clean house so I plan on doing as little as possible!!
 
I gotta get a booth like that and start a trend here in AK! This could go over big! Shh! Don't tell anyone! I don't want anyone to do it before I do!
 
Twiggy: Breakfast of champions! I see bananas so you have the fruit veggie checked, Perhaps that is Nutella under the bananas and there is dairy and hazelnuts in that so protein and dairy checked. And the dough checks the breads category. Look at you! All food groups with one dish! Pat yourself on the back with both hands!
 
crohnsinct said:
Twiggy: Breakfast of champions! I see bananas so you have the fruit veggie checked, Perhaps that is Nutella under the bananas and there is dairy and hazelnuts in that so protein and dairy checked. And the dough checks the breads category. Look at you! All food groups with one dish! Pat yourself on the back with both hands!
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You can have breakfast with me anytime!
 
crohnsinct said:
Twiggy: Breakfast of champions! I see bananas so you have the fruit veggie checked, Perhaps that is Nutella under the bananas and there is dairy and hazelnuts in that so protein and dairy checked. And the dough checks the breads category. Look at you! All food groups with one dish! Pat yourself on the back with both hands!
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Love the way you think!
 
Nah, just a dark shade of gray :)
Don't get me wrong, I love desserts for breakfast with a cup of coffee but I have never been able to justify them
 
Jmrogers4 said:
Nah, just a dark shade of gray :)
Don't get me wrong, I love desserts for breakfast with a cup of coffee but I have never been able to justify them
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HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Live a day in a farm wifes boots and you sure will!:ylol: Their's a reason why I am the size I am. My new favorite saying....I'm NOT fat, I'm abundantly blessed!:lol2:
 
That's great. I'm becoming more "blessed" as the years go by.
Breakfast this morning - lemon meringue pie (there was one piece left from Easter, somebody had to eat it).

Off to lacrosse game, first week of games for the boys, last night Jack and baseball, left the house at 7:30am returned at 8:45pm today is looking much the same and tomorrow and Friday and Saturday and next week - heck let's just say the next 6 weeks!
 
Jmrogers4 said:
Breakfast this morning - lemon meringue pie (there was one piece left from Easter, somebody had to eat it).
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Lemon = fruit
Crust = bread
Meringue...made with eggs = protein

If you had a glass of milk with that dairy and BAM! Hit all the groups! You are good to go!

I had a hard boiled egg a hard boiled white (free range organic egg...protein) , piece of cheese (organic, dairy) , croissant (bread) with jam (organic strawberry...fruit), 4 lemon cookies, 6 Hershey Kisses, 3 or 4 oatmeal M&M cookies and 3 or 4 mini Twix bars. See I get all the healthy stuff out of the way first then go in for the kill!
 
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Creamer in my coffee? Although it is non dairy Remember I'm lactose intolerant so dairy bad!
Dinner tonight - red vines at the lacrosse game
 
This is cracking me up! This morning at breskfast I had to choose between lemon meringue pie and carrot cake with cream cheese icing. I went for the carrot cake. My son complained when he found out I ate cake for breakfast so I told him he could do the same if he baked the cake. I may have inspired him to take up baking...
 
Izzi's GI got a "compliment" in a survey..."Dr. XX is GREAT; he actually acts like he cares"!
So...he's a good actor??? lol
 
My son never wanted breakfast before crohns. I never made him eat much, but now I do and he doesn't seem to mind. My daughter is now the one who doesn't want to eat breakfast. I am wondering if this is normal among kids WITHOUT IBD?? I don't have any ability to understand what is normal kid behavior anymore...
 
HA! I hear ya Johnnysmom. I wish that mom with the normal kid who eats the right stuff, learns at the exact right pace, grows according to the charts etc would out herself!

My supposedly healthy 9 year old hates eating breakfast. Drives ne insane because well I am Italian and was put on this earth to feed people but also love breakfast and it is the most important meal right? So I stopped forcing her but one day thought hey what if she just doesn't like breakfast food and I presented something else. So sure enough, once I started giving her chicken, pasta, salad, veggies and hummus etc as a choice she was gobbling breakfast down. Sent her to school today after eating salad with roasted peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers...stinking like garlic! Barforama!
 
I'm not sure about 'most' kids specifically but I think lots of people just aren't hungry first thing in the morning. I don't eat breakfast until approx. 10am but that's usually not possible to do for kids while at school.

When my kids were small (so years before Stephen was diagnosed), I used to give them 1/2 of a Carnation Breakfast with their breakfast. They may only have eaten 1/2 toast but I felt better knowing they'd gotten some nutrition. I only gave them 1/2 because I found the entire 'pack/can' was quite filling for them. Also, it was very thick, so I diluted it with milk - they were happy because they thought they got chocolate milk every day! :thumright:
 
So does it matter if you ration your Easter candy over a week or so eating 5 pieces a day or you just shovel the whole bag down your throat while drinking your mornng tea and reading the forum?

Same amount of total candy intake right?
 
Liam is the opposite, breakfast is the best chance I have to get food into him. If he doesn't eat well then I know I need to worry because he either has a lot of pain or severe nausea and I know his appetite is going to be non existant all day.

His appetite decreases steadily as the day goes on. I try to give him a good snack straight after school and we generally eat dinner at 5:30 because I know after about 6:30 I have almost no chance of getting him to eat more than a couple of bites.
 
My non-IBD kid has never been a fan of breakfast. She says it makes her nauseated to eat early in the morning. Admittedly, I didn't push it...well until standardized testing time! You know how they beat it in your head to make sure they get a good breakfast for testing, I'd be chasing that child around with a full on breakfast those mornings!!

So in HS I overheard her telling a friend, "Yeah, my Mom thought breakfast during CRCT would get me into Yale."

Ummm..no I didn't..well okay maybe I did a little!
 
:lol: Shoot, I should've given them the WHOLE can of Carnation Breakfast! :facepalm:
 
Maree same here. My kids are big on breakfast and lunch. I grew up the same way.
My dad had all us kids (6) get up by 5:30 am (no I wasn't raised in the country). We always could have are fill of breakfast foods. My mom accomplished more by 10 am then most do all day long. Still to this day if I have a big project I want it done by noon.
 
CIC,

I tend to just go ahead and eat all the candy...no rationing here! I figure it gets it out of the house and hopefully makes me so sick of it, I won't go buy more for a while! :ylol:
 
Maree! That sounds yummy! Let's see..

Almonds - awesome source of protein
Eggs - more protein bonus points
Agave - non processed sugar nice and clean
Dark Chocolate 70% - well, chocolate is processed but 70% has so many heart benefits and since we are aging and under a lot of stress we really owe it to our families to take good care of ourselves so the way I see it you are being rather selfless here!
Organic butter - organic is good...from grass fed cows no doubt.
Whole meal Spelt Flour - breads check and whole double check

The only food group you are missing is fruits and veggies so yeah maybe you should do the mommy scarifice thing and eat it all yourself:ylol:

JMK: I like the way you think! Hopefully it doesn't kick my sweet tooth into over drive and send me to the market buying more:yfaint:
 
CIC I love your nutrition reviews :) Guess I could make a raspberry coulis to go with it to deal with fruit and veg deficincency.

I've found I love agave, I think it tastes much nicer than sugar, so think will stick with it even if/when I abandon my attempts at healthy food.
 
Maree...do you replace sugar with it in regular recipies or do you have to search out agave specific recipies? and why can't I spell recipie? Argh.
 
I have a powdered version of agave that I replace sugar with in normal recipes, the tin says to use 80% the amount as sugar. If the recipe doesn't sound very sweet I often wont change the recipe but if it's already rich I'll increase one of the other dry ingredients to compensate.

For example in the chocolate cake recipe, I decided I'd prefer this was less sweet not more sweet so I reduced the quantity of agave from 125g to 100g and increased the amount of almond meal from 125g to 150g. I also sometimes add almond meal to recipes that don't contain it, to replace some of the sugar, as I like the flavor.

I haven't done it yet but I'm sure you could make meringues with agave and they'd taste great. I'd use 80% of the sugar recommended then 20% nut flour.

I also have a light syrup version, which has quickly become Liam's favorite toping. I much prefer the taste of it to maple syrup.
 

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