10/27/2008

Adventures in my world

It’s been a while. Suppose it’s time for another update. It was a pretty good weekend in our house. Saturday was Make a Difference Day at our church. They had like 8 service projects planned, plus they were serving lunch. So we went and had pizza with some friends, then we took Alex to the Senior Center to play Uno (the girls stayed and played in the nursery). Afterward he told me that when he’s a grown up he’s going to go over there every day to play cards. I hope he does.
This weekend we were glued to the TV watching The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. I had never heard of it, but Annie picked it up at the library, so I figured why not? Well it was an instant hit with all five of us. If you’ve never seen it, it’s a cartoon series from the 60’s and it’s FREAKING HILARIOUS. When you get a chance, go look for it on u-tube or something. It’s worth it.
That’s about all, we’re gearing up for a busy week around here. In addition to the normal humdrum of life, I seriously need to get started on my Christmas projects.

10/15/2008

Scenes from my life


Playing outside recently, we have:

Alex and his missing teeth

Louisa strangling her brother

Annie playing under a pile of leaves

10/14/2008

Random

Over the weekend Alex lost his second tooth. So I mentioned to him that we should put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy. (We lost the first one before we could request the tooth fairy’s services.) He looks me in the eye and asks if the tooth fairy is real. Not being one to lie to my children, I asked him if he wanted the truth, or if he wanted a story. He’s not dumb, he wanted the truth. So I gave it to him, and asked if he wanted to pretend that I was the tooth fairy. A pretty good arrangement if you ask me.
Last night the fire department came over to run a training practice on the house on our annex. We went over to watch, and learn a little about their procedure. The kids got a tour of the fire truck, the ambulance, and got to look through a heat-seeking camera. Then before we left we got to watch them suit up and go in. Way cool.
I am currently dealing with another round of poison ivy. I’m still waiting for it to stop getting worse so it’ll start getting better.
Went to the apple butter festival over the weekend. We were late so we didn’t get to see them making apple butter, but we got to watch them make cider instead, so it was ok. The living history encampments were excellent as usual. The kids met Mark Twain, sat inside a teepee and made candles. Good stuff.
The garden is good. I used up the rest of my bulbs over the weekend. Planted the last 100ish so that I could say I put in 1,000. The rest were scattered around to various people in the community. I have a few tasks left to do before I’m ready to call it done for the winter. We’ll see if I can’t bang them out here in my last few really nice days of fall

10/09/2008

The life and times

Fall is rapidly descending on our house. As much as I hate to see my garden fading, I love the fall colors! We are very blessed to live in a heavily wooded community, so we have lots of pretty leaves to admire. While they aren’t out in full force yet, it’s only a matter of time…
So in other news, the daffodil project is coming along. At last check I have planted around 875 bulbs. My goal is 1,000, but I’m seriously running out of places for them. They’re completely surrounding the house, under all the trees, in the iris bed on the corner, and in the overflow garden. I’m thinking about starting a second overflow garden for the remaining bulbs. We’ll just have to see…
The kids are good. Not a whole lot to report. Settling into the new fall routines… Getting lots of outside time in before it gets too cold…

LinkWithin

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...