My mom celebrates her birthday on June 7th, so we usually combine it with Angelina and Graham. She took the carrot cake home … we had enough to last all week here!
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
ARghhhh!
Ok, I did it again! I just noticed, tonight, while writing up the post for Angelina’s birthday, that I had the wrong year on the cake. You’ll recall I did the same thing with Dash in April?
Either I do not want my kids to age, or I am aging quicker than I realize. In my defense, I was really tired after the weekend. You’d think I’d learn after doing it once. And, no one mentioned it in a way that made me realize what I’d done! Angelina mentioned it, but I assumed I just hadn’t counted the candles right…well, I was off on that at first, too. At least she blew out the correct number of candles.
Happy Birthday, Angelina!
Angelina turned 12 on June 5, 2012. However, she doesn’t want to remain 12 long because a couple weeks ago I heard her counting down to her 13th birthday – that caught me off-guard. She and Graham celebrated birthdays on Sunday, June 3 with grandparents.
Her Grandma Audrey made this last gift. It’s a bed for an 18” doll. The bedding is attached to an under-bed storage box. Really cool idea – possible 4-H project for a future childcare exhibit.
Happy Birthday, Graham!
Graham is six! He turned six on June 2, 2012, but we celebrated with family and grandparents on Sunday, June 3 with a grill-out. I picked up all the fixings and the cake on the way back from Fargo on Sunday. This was a cool chocolate chip cookie cake. (When you have three birthdays to celebrate, variety is needed!)
Friday, May 25, 2012
Garden Progress!!
I made it into the garden and did quite a bit of work today. I didn’t get exhausted, either…thank goodness. It sure helps to split up the work into little chunks.
This morning, I replenished a couple of the SFG’s (Square Foot Gardens) with compost/soil-less mix. I also planted the carrots, 1/2 the beans, beets, and spinach. In addition, a few more weeds were dug out from the flower bed and garden area. It’s sad to see that a few of the perennials I purchased at the end-of-season box sale didn’t make it through the winter. Guess that means I’ll have room for more?? Or, maybe it’d be best to space the current plants, use all those scrap pieces of Roc-Kloth to cover the bare areas, and cover it with rocks/pavers so I don’t have to dig so many weeds next year. The later sounds like the better option…
This afternoon, the rest of the beans, lettuce, and radish were planted and everything was watered. Quite a few more weeds were dug out because I enlisted the help of the kids. They aren’t quite as efficient in digging weeds, but their help was necessary. They hauled the weeds to the burn site and helped carry tools back to the garage. It’s those tasks that make me the most tired!
My future gardening goals (hopefully quite a few will be checked off the list tomorrow):
1. Get help rototilling the open areas again.
2. Plant broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, green pepper, red pepper, and jalepeno pepper plants.
3. Plant cucumber, pumpkin, watermelon and squash plants (this depends somewhat upon the room available).
4. Take up the torn pieces of Roc-Kloth and lay them strategically in the flower bed.
5. Enlist help to bring the leftover fieldstone to the flower bed.
6. Lay down Roc-Kloth between the flower bed and SFG’s to prepare for the paver pathway.
7. Lay pavers over the Roc-Kloth pathway.
8. Dig out weeds in day-lily and iris bed.
9. Dig out weeds around and in strawberry bed.
10. Transplant strawberries and enlarge the strawberry bed.
11. Dig out weeds around blueberry shrubs (Yes! They are in bloom!!).
12. Level the area where the pool will be situated…do you think the kids will work faster if this is at the end of the list of tasks?!? I think they probably will!
It’s Friday…
and I didn’t have a good title for a post, but wanted to summarize a few things that have been going on around here.
1. The three middle kids – Angelina, Zeke & Graham – have slept out in the tent for the last two nights. They set it up at the end of the tree rows, so are a distance away from the house. They brought our old covered fire pit and have been cooking breakfast and dinner over the fire! Yesterday I didn’t see any of them until shortly before lunch when Zeke came back to use the bathroom.
2. Dash is making progress (FINALLY!) in getting his subjects completed.
3. A new, larger pool has been ordered and the kids can hardly wait. They spent a lot of time swimming last year. We’ll need to do a bit of work to level the ground before setting up the new pool, but it will be well worth the effort.
4. I’ve made more progress on clearing the flower bed of weeds, but we sure could use more rain to soften the ground. It comes up in clumps which I then have to break up to level off the surface. I’m tired in about 20 minutes!
5. Almost all the supplies for the next school year are on hand and I’m almost done creating the necessary lesson plans. I’d like to have all that figured out before heading to the MN Homeschool conference next week.
6. We finally have a broody hen! She’s set up with a clutch of eggs and we hope this experiment goes well.
7. Cloth diapering is going well. There have been days where we’ve only used them at night…sending Louis out to the tractor with cloth diapers is just not practical! However, we have days, like yesterday, where it’s only cloth. In fact, I did make the decision to order diapers for the new little one coming. However, because my ‘little’ ones tend to be pretty big, I opted to buy the regular sized instead of infant sized. The way I see it, we’d only be using the infant for maybe 2-3 weeks and then the baby would be into regular sized cloth diapers. 2-3 weeks is not enough time to justify the expense.
8. The vegetable garden. It hasn’t been planted, yet. But, today is looking like a nice day. Maybe I’ll sneak outside and get it done!
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