Ramblings

Hello all, just another snowy day in our little neck o the woods. We have spent the last couple of days being lazy and  looking through the seed catalogs that came in. There are some very strange looking carrots in one of them, they have a lot of different colors, orange, yellow, purple and one that looked almost white. Although I am intrigued by the colors I wonder how they got that way, as my daughter said when I showed her and the grandbabies “that can’t be natural”! I am intrigued because I love colorful food. I enjoy things like stir fry’s because of all of the different colors. I also think maybe kids would eat more veggies if they looked more fun.

One of my favorite catalogs has quite a few organic seeds although they are by no means inexpensive, I think we will begin with them, and hopefully generate our own seeds for next year as well as good food!

In other news, I am starting to teach my son about minerals because next week we have a hands on science project that grow crystals. I think he will enjoy it, all except the waiting that is, however he will be able to make observations and  watch as what starts as a liquid mixture becomes beautiful crystals. Then later on this year when we go camping if we find geodes then he will have a little better understanding of how they became the rocks with a  surprise inside!

Tomorrow will be another bread baking day and since my son didn’t seem to notice that I added wheat flour to the usual white flour, (he doesn’t like whole wheat bread) ((yet))) I plan to substitute 2 cups of wheat flour and see how that goes over. If I do this and slowly raise the content of wheat vs white flour maybe I can get him used to the new taste. Sometimes it is hard with him to find a way to get him to try new tastes and textures. It seems that a lot of autistic kids have problems with this so I try to find ways to get him used to new things so that he doesn’t notice. I have had some luck doing this and I hope it continues to work. (his take on the muti-colored carrots was the expected ugh, that looks funny, I will only try a no thank you bite if you do that Mom…) I always have him take at least one bite of most foods whether he “likes” them or not because sometimes he finds that he does like them! Of course some things I know he really doesn’t like, or that causes him to be really upset I don’t force!

I hear we are expecting more snow over the weekend, don’t know how much, at this point it really doesn’t matter, I am getting pretty used to looking out and seeing all the snow and as long as I don’t have to go anywhere it’s not so bad, in fact, especially when it first snows (before it starts getting “dirty” it is rather pretty. I will try to get some pretty pics of the snow cover around us up here soon. Until next time I hope all of you are staying warm and enjoying the comfort of loved ones.