Spring Planting

Got most of the garden in today. Tomatoes, cukes, zucchini, peppers, sugar snap peas, beans. Still need to do all the melons and the pumpkins. it felt so good to get out there in the garden and turn over the earth. Planting is so full of hope. Hope and belief.

January Will be Good

I'm ready for January. A new month, a new beginning. I have lots of good things planned and coming up that I am really looking forward to. Unlike December. I don't like December at all. Too many obligations financially and socially. However January is mine, well to a point. Anyway, new things I am looking forward to: weekly bowling with sophia and Ben, beginning a monthly rollerskating session, molly's 15th birthday party, and the starting of our new Little House Book Club. Molly's rehearsal for Beauty and The Beast will begin, she'll continue with paino lessons, and she wants to start swimming at the Y again. I don't know how much she will continue with our new church's youth group. Sunday they are doing yoga, so she'll probably want to do that. She still llikes attending her old youth group, so she will probsably do that most Sundays. I'm challenging myself by knitting sophia gloves using the magic loop method. I want to take a knitting class, but not sure we'll have the funds. I also want to start reading all of Jane Austens major works. Oooh, I almost forgot, we joined Port Discovery for the year! Woohoo! Love the new year so far!

October's Home Depot Project

Helicopters!

My New Favorite Author

I am loving Melanie Benjamin! She has written two novels that I am in love with. Alice I Have Been and Mrs. Tom Thumb. Alice I Have Been is the story about Alice In Wonderland after she tumbled down the rabbit hole, the story of the real girl Lewis Carroll was inspired by. Mrs. Tom Thumb is the story of the mid-18th century entertainment Miss Lavinia Warren and her husband Tom Thumb. These books are both historical and fiction. I love them!

Science Center

Every September, the science center admission is only $2 per person. Quite a discount. Yesterday the littles and I took advantage of it. It was strange not having Molly with us, with her in school, she can't go on our field trips anymore :( Saturday I'm taking her to the very cool American Visionary Art Museum. I got two free tickets for that off of the Smithsonians Free Museum Day promotion.

Sophia : Pueblo House

Lake Elkhorn playground after church