Goals to work on

One of Linda's occupational therapy goals is "to cook a full meal." Like many things, I suppose there is a lot of room for interpretation there. She has cooked pancakes for herself in the morning and other pretty simple things.

I think the idea of the goal is that she can handle various different kinds of food preparation. Toward that goal, she decided to cook crispy chicken for lunch today, one of her favorites. It didn't work out so well, although I would count it as a partial success. She had the necessary dishes out, as well as the milk, corn flake crumbs, and chicken. Everything was pretty much set to go.

The real stumper was removing the skin from the chicken. She managed to do one thigh and get it breaded before she broke down crying. I did the remaining ones. It was a lot harder than she expected, and it made today something of a downer for her.

That's not to say that we didn't have some fun. We've both been really tired of late, so we took advantage of a volunteer babysitter and went out to relax. Still, when I put Linda to bed just now, she accounted the day overall as not so great because of lunch.

I guess that will be something to work on.