Who’s Normal Anyway?

Yes we are still here, I’m just not keeping up with this blogging malarkey at the moment. Been busy with the Beavers and my Egypt game and general life and home ed lol.

A is away on a climbing course this week, so days seem much longer without him coming home at teatime. Today we’ve had a day in at home. L took me outside to do gardening this morning, he was most insistent! M was doing maths - set himself a target of doing 7 pages today so that for April he would’ve finished more pages than in January (he colours in the blocks in the back of the Miquon book) but he flagged at 4 So I was in and out helping M and supervising L. We watered all the seedlings then weeded part of the veg patch and resowed mangetout. Theoretically A put them in about a month or so ago but nothing had grown, so either he never planted them or else the birds got them or they rotted or something. I also planted out the only woad plant that grew from all the seeds I planted - must do some more. When we came in we listened to some Mozart as part of our last week of A Cricket in Times Square (Beyond FIAR) and then had some lunch. L played with his garage and M and I played Civ3 together which he bought a week ago.

In the afternoon we went for a short drive to drop off some Beaver notices and to get L off for a sleep easily, then M did some painting for a while. We sorted through some photos and got together the things for a Cub badge he wants to do - it’s Cubs this evening so he can take everything with him to show Akela. When L woke up we went out into the garden again to bring the washing in and tidy up and then I made some fish pie for tea while L went to play with the lad next door. We’ve had tea and walked to the shop for ice creams, though L dropped his on the ground fairly quickly. L’s been amusing us by chasing us and blowing raspberries on our legs, something he’s come up with today by himself because we didn’t start it! Now I’d better stop this and go chase M to get ready for Cubs lol.

As part of his Cricket in Times Square topic at the moment M did a bit of a project on Italian food, finishing off by making his own Italian food last Friday.

He decided to make pasta for a main course and weighed and mixed it all himself.

When it had stood for a while I helped him get it started with in the pasta maker, and then together we rolled it thinner and thinner. A came in from work just in time to do the strip cutting right before we cooked it for tea. I made some meatballs to go with tomato and chilli sauce and we had that with the pasta - yum!

For dessert M chose to make ice cream. We found a recipe for vanilla ice cream and set to with separating the eggs. I wanted M to manage it all himself but every egg he cracked he split the yolk. We had a fridge full of broken yolk eggs very quickly! He must have done about half a dozen that way so eventually I took over the cracking part and then M separated them LOL. The rest of the ice cream making was much simpler. I was surprised how well it worked just putting the mixture in the freezer and stirring it every hour. M added some choc chips just before it froze completely.

It was ice cream to die for. So much more delicious than bought ice cream. We will be making it again