Just a glimpse

Amazingly enough they are sharing all that I hold dear in the world...reading, biking, gardening...here is keeping my fingers crossed hoping they don't forget the basics as they grow and change. Hoping they remember the importance of home, family, earth, and exploration. And hoping they always feel how much they are loved!!!

Gardener

This year Bronwyn has been hot to garden...all things gardening and planting...she was so anxious that we started some plants from seeds just so she could see something growing before Michigan became hospitable for outdoor planting... As a fundraiser for her school, they sold vouchers for flats of plants at a local nursery so we went and picked them out and Bronwyn asked if we could get vegetables she really wanted to plant eggplant and low and behold they had some plants. I had places to go that evening but she was so excited to be getting things out that I dug the big top soil and she did all the rest including digging compost into the holes. I was taken aback. She worked so very hard. And the next morning the first thing she asked was "What can I plant now?" She is learning about taking care of something. About how our waste becomes something good. She is learning to green up her little corner of the world. She is learning to grow food and how to nourish those she loves.

We also joined our local CSA. We are sharing it with another family and are excited to get the girls out there and see how food is grown and where it comes from. We are looking forward to the season and to see all the varieties of foods that will come our way. Plus they have chickens so we get eggs and the kids can feed the chickens when they go out there. I may have to find a few new recipes for the new produce we get...can't wait till he gives us the call that the first lot is in!!! Here is to growth and locally grown foods!!!!!! (Can't get more local than our backyard!!)

Perfect Day...

So Mother's Day this year couldn't have been nicer...I had it off so I got to lounge around...it was cooler than I would have liked outside but I put my freshly cleaned porch to use and spent it the best way possible, snuggled and reading!!!! with the lovelies, then we went to my favorite restaurant Genji, and followed the whole day up with a walk in the rain!!!! (which I have always loved!!) I find the older I get the less days I get to lounge and relax with the gang...there is always something pulling me another direction and sucking up our much needed down time. So that weekend was like a true vacation. No plans, no running, a lot of snuggling, and time around the house. I really love a day snuggled in the blankies with the candles and incense going and books and journals and coffee or tea and the topper would be fresh baked goods from the kitchen...and if it is rainy all the better...I have been behind in my posts and have a lot more photos to get on here...maybe I need a flickr account??? Are those easy to set up?? Is Flickr as addicting as the blog world has been? Not sure I need another distraction...hmmmm....more really soon!!!

Accomplished...

Well this weekend I feel like I accomplished some things...mind you it helped that I had extra time off a mini holiday for me with no plans and plenty of time to potter around and just be, I haven't had that in quite a long time. But I managed to get my porch washed!! I made it like an aromatherapy day I used lavender castille soap so it was very spa like!! I found the table and chairs at a yard sale a week ago. I had been wanting a set of some sort for the front porch so we could have tea or snacks out there...more of an outdoors room but hadn't found anything I loved or really fit the age of our home...or that I could afford...but voila there we have it. I love how it all turned out! I got everything scoured and the cushions back out and the candles ready to be lit...and of course today was chilly, windy and rainy, but I spent a good hour or so snuggled out there in my thrifted blankies reading my Mary Engelbreit magazine and listening to the ladies as they snuggled alongside with books and journals. And did I mention the lovely melodies of the windchimes...yeah life is good!!

Wanna be...

This is where I want to be...snuggled up with my yummy, watching the sun filter through the lace curtain, some music on, a good book (currently reading Eat Pray Love), and if it is a really good day, some strong coffee and my snuggle blankies...I really would have been up for an all day snuggle day but alas work called...and I dragged myself away from the world of comfy couches and yummy ladies...to head here...sigh...

Week in review...

Well the week is nearly over, and I have been running around like crazy as per usual lately... I had to bake for the school carnival which is this evening, I worked at our co-op, had a date with the Irishman, took a friend out for her Birthday for dinner, movie (Baby Mama cute...but crass), and a drink...and tonight is the carnival then I am off with girlfriends to see my favorite local band, Empty Pockets. Tomorrow we go have breakfast at the fly in breakfast at our local airport, the girls love the pancakes and seeing the planes...

Above, Ella and her friend Zoe's fashion show, our life love how John captured all the movement, My Irishman eating his lovely Indian dinner on his school tray (he loves these things and I am not sure why) complete with a carton not of milk but raspberry keifer, and last was Bronwyn this morning before spirit day at school (Beach day) she won for best girl...so off we go for screaming and sugar!!!!

Exercise...

My new exercise equipment arrived!! I finally made the leap and got a new bicycle! My old bike was an inexpensive mountain bike that suffered a crash last year...and I must say hurt a lot in the saddle area to ride. So I went classic old time cruiser ride...who knew bike companies like Trek made such vintag lovely bikes? I didn't!! And of course I had to upgrade and get the market basket!! My last bike basket took a lot of the impact of my crash!! So a new chapter...I am hoping with the increased comfort that I will bike a lot more this year. Maybe even replace a few errand trips with pedal power instead of petrol power. It helps that my oldest has gotten confident and more steady on her bike and we can ride together. Our youngest has begun with training wheels but can't quite manage it all herself, so we put her in the bike trailer and rode downtown for dinner one evening at our local diner called Daddy O's...it is what I hope to have a lot more of in our family's summer!!! Here's to bicycles!!!!!!!