I’m sorry you’ve reached the blog of someone who previously could think about more than one thing. Right now all I can think about is gardening. Case and point, last weekend my friend Erin and I went to a master gardener sale and well…
Ya so, that’s been keeping me busy. But seriously this is also serving as a public service announcement. Check out your county (or a neighboring county’s) extension. They should have a master gardener program and they do plant sales in the spring as fundraisers. The deals are great, the variety at this one was insane (342 tomato varieties… at one booth!). We had a blast.
I’m also managing activities for Tuesday’s active Daisy Girl Scout Troop. We’re going to Forest School once a week for I think five more weeks until summer break. Tuesday’s recital is coming up and tomorrow it’s a fully make-uped dress rehearsal/picture day. By the way I volunteered to be a stage mom… before I realized my job would be running out and putting out props in front of a packed house (must remember to aim my bottom to the back of the stage!). Needless to say school is in the full on freestyle/unschooling mode. Tuesday is aching to read though. Once she can read up on bunnies we have promised her she can get some. I don’t think she’s close at all, but I find her with books all the time. And writing non sense notes like crazy (which I hoard because they are adorable!).
I promise to do another catch up soon!
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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I’m sure you’ll excuse my absence when you see what I’ve been distracted with:
All from my garden. I did have to stretch it a bit to come up with this bouquet for a friend’s birthday; and included budding bits from a bush, branches from our dogwood, a weed and an unfurling fern. Yes new life is popping up everywhere! And now that I’ve realized I have allergies and can just take a pill and feel human I am quite happy to be outside all day, as are the girls. I’ve got lots of plans, lots and lots of plans.
Easter at my mom and step-dad’s. See that sweet dress on Tuesday? Mine when I was her age! Good thing 80s fashion is back in vogue.
I did absolutely no planning with regards to Easter, since we don’t celebrate it. My mom always comes through with a lovely brunch and hosts wonderful family time, which we love. I mentioned to Tuesday it was coming up and she was all, “remember that one time at the club with all the eggs!!!” I asked her if she wanted me to hide some eggs for her and oh boy did she. So Saturday night Bj and I were filling plastic eggs with whatever we could find. Including some left over halloween candy. Nothing says rebirth like gummy brains! Bennet was thrilled with the hunt. Every time she found an egg she exclaimed, “oh!” picked it up, put it in her basket and immediately signed “more”.
Now we’re down to the desert for a few days, where it threatens to be pushing 100. 100! I think I’ll melt! Luckily it’s raining here and I don’t feel too bad leaving my garden to nature. Though I will be bringing a stack of books and magazines with me (including this one, this one, and this one! -affiliate links). -
Today. Oh today. I just want to bottle you up and have this feeling to take a sip of whenever I need it. Five hours alone with Bennie this morning (she got up at five, Tuesday at 10:30!). Then a nap for her and cookie making with Tuesday. She ran after the mailman barefoot to take him one warm from the oven.
My mom popped over in the middle of her busy day. I happened to have the door open when my neighbor came home from work. She had a rough day. Come over I yelled across the street, we have cookies! So she did, with wine. We chatted a bit. Tuesday packed up some cookies for the guy mowing the lawn.
It poured all day, big fat lovely rain. We stayed cozy and I said a rare yes to Bob the Builder. I started getting things organized in the storage room, where I’d thrown stuff all winter. Dinner was left overs and easy. Then we came upstairs and I asked Tuesday to read to Bennie so I could put away a weeks worth of laundry. And she took her job so seriously. Making up whatever she couldn’t remember.
Bj came upstairs then and Bennet started dancing to some music. It took me a moment to realize it was coming from my phone… My locked phone. That’s when I realized she could change the sound played for my timer and alarms without getting the phone unlocked. And I laughed when I figured out that’s why Banana Phone started playing in the library earlier in the week. Silly Bennet.
Bj read Superfudge to Tuesday so I put Bennet down (a rare event). She was so snuggly I didn’t want to lay her in her crib after she drifted off to sleep in my arms. So I held her.
And wrote this.
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