May I Suggest Peas

Among the many wonderful reasons to garden, if one of yours happens to be to amuse your children then may I suggest peas. We also have a strawberry plant, which is fun to harvest from. Anything picked fresh from the garden is far superior to store-bought, but there is an extra element to hunting for pods on a vine. They blend in so well with the plant that hunting for and finding peas becomes an experience. I remember it from my own childhood and now seeing the delight in my children's faces when they discover another pea pod to pick makes me feel like life is a bit of a circle game. We are currently watching our first tomato of the year, waiting for it to turn green, and if you are a four-year-old boy, waiting for it to get "too big to fit in the back of a truck." Happy Spring.

Say it with Style

For beautiful hand-crafted cards at a great price, check out: http://cardsbyerika.blogspot.com/. I'm ordering these two. So pretty. I love them.

9 1/2 Years

It's funny how you can still surprise your spouse after 9 1/2 years of marriage. You pull something out that he never knew or saw you do before, something totally ordinary, and you Wow! him.

How did I Wow! my husband? With scrambled eggs. What? I said it was "ordinary".

I made scrambled eggs...fluffy, not dry, not wet, perfect in every way, as if Mary Poppins herself were standing over the skillet in my kitchen. This is a skill I have because I am my mother's daughter.

He was in awe, partly because they were awesome and partly because I never made him scrambled eggs before.

"What?" I said. "Just because I don't like scrambled eggs doesn't mean I don't know how to make them."

He said I should make them all the time. I so love flattery, but I also love fried eggs.

Superstar

His grandparents took him to the Children's Museum a few weeks ago where they were celebrating Dr. Seuss. He decorated the hat and bow tie there and threw together the rest of this ensemble at home.

Mommy's Bed

A nice place to meet.

Once Upon A Time...

...a little girl found a seat under an olive tree

and sat there while her brother and daddy made stepping stones

and she was happy. The End.

Breakfast Made Easy

This is the menu:

Sunday: Cracked Wheat & Fruit

Monday: Oatmeal & Smoothie

Tuesday: Egg & Breakfast Meat & Veggies

Wednesday: Oatmeal & Fruit

Thursday: Egg & Veggies

Friday: Oatmeal & Fruit

Saturday: Pancake Day (hubby has requested that we add breakfast meat & veggies to pancake day, so we'll be incorporating that).

The menu makes mornings so easy, ups the amount of whole grains and veggies we eat, and gives the children one day a week to choose what we eat (on pancake day they choose from crepes, pancakes, German pancakes, waffles, French toast, scones, banana bread, etc. Although we used to call it Children's Choice day and sometimes my son would choose oatmeal; maybe we should go back to that, so they don't associate their choice with something unhealthy all the time.)