Oven Pancakes

 

 

Mornings around here get busy and the kids get tired of cereal every morning for breakfast. Other than Blaine he will only eat dry cereal no milk and only certain cereals.

Making things like pancakes and eggs always ends up with someone eating a cold breakfast, not everyone eating at the same time etc.

I started making my grilled cheese in the oven then decided hey let's try pancakes. I have a very large cookie sheet it takes up the entire oven so if you are making pancakes in the oven you will need to adjust your recipe to a smaller pan. I would say by half. You will need to adjust bake times if you are making a smaller batch I would start with 7-10 mins and go up as needed.

I used pancake mix for this that I got at dollar tree for $1.50.

What you need:

Cookie sheet
Pam
Oven
Whisk or fork
Big Bowl
3 cups Milk
8 Eggs
4 cups Pancake mix

Step One:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Step Two:

Put all your wet ingredients into your bowl and whisk them together.

Step Three:

Add in pancake mix and whisk

Step Four:

Spray your cookie sheet with pam and pour your mix onto the cookie sheet. 

Step Five:

Bake 20 mins. Checking to make sure the bottom is golden brown.

Step 6:

Cut into desired piece sizes. I got about 10 large pancake squares from mine. We used 5 and put the rest in the freezer in a ziplock freezer bag to be eaten later.

The kids loved these and so did the adults. To warm them up I just toss them in the microwave but you can do them in the toaster if you would rather.

Enjoy!!!

 

 

 

Virtual School

 Things in Ontario shifted to virtual learning for those children who are in school.

Which for me is just one. The other three are full-time homeschooled.

We are on day 4 of virtual learning with L. My issues so far are this:
The teacher posted an activity and told the kids to do it. L watched one of the videos 4 times and still couldn't answer the questions. When I asked her about it she said the teacher never taught them about community or growth mindset.
I let the teacher know this and suddenly the activity was removed.

The teacher tells them they need to do 1000 hours as a class outside each week. Okay, I am all for outside and being active!!! I do the math. It works out to almost 60 hours each week per child..... I don't think she thought this through...

The teacher tells them to go outside and identify trees by their bark! Oh, I love this we do this for homeschool with bark and leaves and looking at the trees we do it a couple of times a year while we hike! I ask L so you guys covered trees? and know what different bark looks like? L "No but you did for homeschool" SIGH

I help L with her schooling last week. She yells and screams because I make her sound out a word she wants to spell (the same thing I do for all three of the kids that are homeschooled). I give up after her being nasty for 30mins and tell her teacher I will no longer be doing the school work with her and that she will only be attending the online meets and things that are done as a group. Her teacher says okay I will do it with her one on one. This means L is sitting in front of her tablet fighting to do school with her teacher for what worked out to be a total that day of 8 hours...I wasn't impressed. I listened to some of it. She allowed L not to sound out words, gave her the answers instead of making her think about it.

Today I was listening to their morning small group activities. I watched L do nothing and the teacher asked "what did you get" L says "The same" and that is just good enough. No how did you get the same answer? no show my work? nothing noda.  I email the teacher to let her know that L is not actually doing any of the work and she just sits there and stares at the tablet.

In all of the time that L does her virtual school (8ish hours) and does not complete any of the activities. The homeschooled children do workbooks, 15 min break, a video about something they wanted to learn about (today it was what it means to be grateful), self-awareness journals, 15 min break, snack, learning game (Today was letter go fish), our group reading which was about star constellations, 15 min outside break, individual reading and sight words with me and lunch. They also either do a game on Osmo or a learning app. Then they are free to play until snack at 2 plus 15 outside and then more free play until supper.

Supper is when I say okay L you have had enough for today.

If she would homeschool without yelling and screaming at me about everything she would be homeschooled but that isn't how it works for her and I will not be yelled at, screamed at, and the rest of the kid's school and day disrupted. So school is for her. Do I think she is learning anything at all from this virtual school? no. Do I think she has learned anything since starting back at a traditional school in Sept instead of homeschooling? nope. However, I have to look at the family as a whole and what is best for everyone and that is L being in school. 

Spotify: Jan 2022

 I use Spotify for not just music but also my sleep hypnosis and I listen to pod casts as well.

2021 Wrapped from Spotify. I was so excited when they released this to see which song I listened to the most in 2021.

I wasn't so much shocked as I was disappointed to see what was the top song on my list.

I took a screenshot just to prove that it was the top song. 

I will only list a few because there was a lot of song on that list. I added links so you can experience the songs as well.

Stinky Stinky Dog Poop by The old man who sings about poop

Do you know why this song is top of my list? Because Alexa + Kids ='s the ability to say "Alexa play the dog poop song" 

 

Lil Bit by Nelly and Florida Georgia Line  

I love when a rapper that I grew up listening to teams up with a country singer and makes an awesome song!!

 

Don't Cha by the pussy cat dolls

Man I loved these guys when they came out on the TV many years ago!! and Yes I dance (maybe badly to their music)

Blue (da ba dee) by Effel 65

This here is another one played by the kids. I am not even sure how they heard about it. I listened to this song when it first came out but as far as I knew it was a one hit wonder, never to listened to again. Then suddenly the kids are playing it on Alexa. When I was a kid everyone just guessed what they were actually saying.

Truth hurts by lizzo

This is a newer song, I found it by accident and fell in love! Some people call it something called "ratchet" as far as I knew was a tool. When it comes to music I don't much care what other people think. It is about how the beat makes me feel or how the lyrics touch me.

Country Girl (shake it for me) by Luke Bryan

Who doesn't love that sexy man. I love this song. The kids say "They are singing about shaking butts" I say "Nope its about hips, dancing and using your whole body to move"

If I can't have you by Shawn Mendas

This song the beat and lyrics just hit right. The beat wants to make you move.

 

What did you wrapped 2021 list look like?