There's been several days where Ted has dog-sat Lucky where he's made some effort to make him behave. Which, yes, did take many hours. But it made it a bit easier to maintain those things whenever Kate was also there, and led to overall improvement.

"It was alright. Didn't really get much done, honestly," he answers, getting back into his chair to enjoy his cake. "No practice since most of them were off on a field trip, so I tried to do some paperwork and planning, but, you know. Couldn't stop thinking about tomorrow." He smiles and shrugs.