For years (seriously) I have been convinced that we as a family could live "off the grid". Oh yeah baby. Totally could. But alas, since we never make those critical first steps, we have settled on a garden. Let me tell you. This has been an undertaking! Should it be this way? Probably not. In my head, it should be pretty cut and dry - I mean, not to take it lightly because I know there is more to it than just sticking plants in the ground. However, after prepping our purchased ground ( yeah, that is correct. We had to buy dirt to plant stuff in...just like we had to buy grass because honey had to have a new mower...yet we had insufficient grass, so we had to buy some) we agonized over which plants to put in it. That is a bit dramatic, but almost completely true, at least on my part. Now as it is - 4 tomato plants, 3 pepper plants and an eggplant plant later, one of our tomato plants is wilty :( I am beside myself. Tomatoes are supposed to be EASY! We have tried them in pots every year we have been here. Every year we get maybe 5...if we are lucky...little tomatoes. Right now, there is an umbrella shading this particular plant. And from the looks of it, the eggplant is going to need one as well. Why?! This honestly shouldn't be so difficult lol. Or upsetting! I will come to grips with it I am sure. But right now I just want to pull my hair out. Everyone else is doing superb. Hopefully those two will pull out of their wilty behavior soon.
Here is an image of my fella prepping our ground lol - I think both of us had grander images in our heads as to what our little patch will look like...
Last night Middle and Little were playing with sidewalk chalk. Middle practically begged me to come and look at how pretty the chalk was all crushed up. And said that I must give her credit for doing if it went online - so MIDDLE did it! I just love the feeling of summer in the air. It is SO refreshing.
And earlier in the month if you recall my last post, CharACTers put on the 100th anniversary show of Titanic the Musical. Now, some of the moms from Dreamcatchers and I decided that we would dress up themed with the show, in hopes that we would sell more raffle tickets. This of course is to raise money to offset the expense of the Disney trip our girls will take in June. The Dreamcatchers have been asked to perform at Disney World. The kids are all tickled. This photo was from the night we dressed up, taken by Biggest. She helped with my hair. Good news is we sold a LOT of tickets! Yay for super cool moms - right Holly and Michelle? ;) Love you ladies!
We are almost ready for Winnie the Pooh to open on May 10th. Set was painted - mostly - at a work day we had with the cast on Saturday. That will be a short show, and a short run, just one weekend. And super cute! We have been busy with rehearsals and whatnot for that.
Last but not least of course, is contemplation of homeschooling my three chickens. I have been praying about it, pounding all the negatives in my head, just so I won't be surprised. I know the positives will outweigh the negatives. But no doubt about the negatives...it will requires a LOT of sacrifice on my end.
We are almost to the end of school. Summer is upon us. Vacations are creeping around the corner. Senior portrait season is so close I can almost touch it. So what have YOU been up to?
P.S. Spellcheck picked up "wilty" as an error. It appears as though it is not a real word. But you get what I am saying ;) They aren't "wiltED" - not completely, they are "wiltY" - it is almost a state of mind...Now, to put some shade over eggplant!
