Bookshelves

I read about this idea and loved it. Paul and I completed the project this weekend. I love it! As you can see we are studying steam engines this week though FIAR Mike Mulligan.
Looks great Paul, thank you!

Painting clothespins

We painted clothespins the other day for our art area above the children's desk (see Homeschooling blog for photos). They turned out really great and not too too messy!!

A visit from our Chicago family!

We had such a great time :) Thanks for spending the day with us, wish we'd had more time!!

(hey Adam, you made 'the blog'!!)

Big girl

ok, who gave my baby girl permission to get so big?

Our family vacation

Yes, I'm going to bore you with a slide show of our family vacation up north. We had a great time. We relaxed, rested, napped, swam, fished, played,visited with family, and just flat out had a great time! I love making memories with these kids! We were gone 6 days, 5 nights at Nana's up north cottage with one (rather large) road trip in there too. Videos to come soon!

Mid-July Garden Blog

Well things are growing and growing! I started a butterfly garden along the back fence. Only about 5 of my sunflowers took, so I started planting some very young, butterfly attracting, perennials along the fence line.










The vegetable garden is flourishing! One surprise was my red cherry tomatoes were actually yellow tomatoes. That's OK, the kids still love them! We ate our first green beans fresh from the garden today. Carrots and jalenpenos are growing! Paul and I spotted several cucumbers well on their way. The pumpkin is taking over! It's sort of just a learning plant for me, I don't know if it will actually grow a pumpkin! The other two squashes have several flowers but no fruit. I planted marigolds to keep rabbits away and it seems to be working! Yay!!



The herb garden has several new items; oregano, lavender (french and English) and I just planted some lemon balm today (hope it takes!). I love making salads and going out to get the fresh herbs to add to it! Yum!






The bulbs mom gave me have started to bloom! We have a beautiful red Glad and now a crisp while Lily! Can't wait to see what the third bulb was (I forgot!). And the hydrangea is growing very well!
















I noticed my morning glory has a flower on it, hope it gives me a good show tomorrow!






Notes for next year;
sugar snap peas for the kids
more stuff for kids to just pick and eat!


I have to say I love this journey of gardening! I never really thought I could be good at it. But I am, and I LOVE it!!

My Grandma

and her 5 Great Grands!

Guess what we did today?

MESSY PARTY!!

A bicycle built for 2