April 2019 — Page 2

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt – Margaret Atwood

We have been digging our garden and planting our tomato plants and all kinds of flowers. Tomorrow we will plant our radishes and cucumbers. The kids take turns digging and helping to place the plants and also scattering the flower seeds. They now say they are gardeners.

In My Defense

After answering a couple of questions I felt that I might come across as kind of a meanie — don’t take the kids to the library often, and almost never let them go to the store with me. But, I do actually try to spend a lot of time doing things with them. We spend hours and hours reading together and they absolutely love that. Sarah doesn’t think she can eat breakfast unless I’m reading. We do lots of crafts and nature walks and we spend so much time talking about things we want to do and what we will build or plant next or what project the kids want to do. We don’t travel a lot, but take short trips close to home, though we occasionally take longer trips. But, I will admit that we do a lot of the same things over and over. In my defense the kids seem to thrive on it and can have a perfectly lovely day just playing outdoors building fairy houses or in the outdoor kitchen. They entertain themselves a lot. They don’t seem to ever run out of things they want to do.

We had a nice Easter today and I would post pictures, but I haven’t even gone through them yet. By the time everyone left, and we cleaned up, I was tired and pretty much didn’t want to do anything. So, I will post Easter pictures tomorrow. Tonight I will post some pictures I took a few days ago. Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter Sunday.

Evelyn and Liam love to play in the outdoor kitchen when they come over.