Day 4, Addendum

I had thought the account I had written of Monday afternoon was missing something,   Surely the kids didn't play nice for 3 hours, right?

Right.

When things got restless in the mid-afternoon, I pulled a page from April's book.  We made cookies.  And that meant 20 minutes of me prepping all the ingredients in little bowls so everything would be ready for the kids to dump in.  They did remarkably well.  And the egg-free chocolate chip cookies turned out REALLY well.  I modified the recipe, adding flax seed, cranberry bits, and apricot bits.

And it took up a good hour of time and refocused the kids long enough to keep them playing nice :)