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Mother's Day and gardening.
May. 14th, 2006 11:34 pmHappy Mother's Day to all who are celebrating this holiday!
After finally turning off the X-Box around 3:30am last night/this morning and saying goodbye to the last buddy, Philip and I made it to bed a little before 4am. (Though I dozed on the couch for almost the last hour - *yawn*.) As such, we slept in this morning. When we did get up, Philip left the bedroom first, and he brought back to me a lovely card and flower corsage from
Heather for Mother's Day. It was a beautiful yellow flower to wear to church... only we didn't go this morning. She's sneaked into the house to leave it on the countertop for me - so sweet!
We had a fairly relaxing day. Philip left around 12:45pm to help a friend move into his new house, and the boys and I headed outside. I finished seeding the courtyard with grass (under the boys' careful supervision - aka constant chatter) and watered it. Then A.J. and Jack took turns watering all the seeded spots in the front lawn. I began digging the holes on the perimeter of the garden for the marigolds, and I worked them into the ground while the boys kept a close eye on my pattern (two orange, one yellow, two orange, etc). I was so proud of myself after planting my very first ever flower that I had A.J. call Heather just to tell her I had done it, and both he and Jack talked to her for a while before I finally took over the phone call (with the phone on the 'speaker' setting and laying in the garden while I worked). I only managed to get nine marigolds into the ground before it began to rain just a little bit, and we packed up and came back inside.
While waiting for the weather to decide what it was going to do, I started making a very early dinner. I was working on the grilled chicken when I received a surprise phone call from the Brain. Though we talk often, it's usually much later at night, and at first I was a little worried to hear from him at only 5pm, and I quickly asked him if something was wrong... but he'd called early just to wish me a Happy Mother's Day! Isn't he the sweetest?! We talked for a little bit, got disconnected for a few minutes and then talked for a little bit more. I was really touched. :-)
A few hours after dinner, the boys and I went back outside until it was dark. With their help once again, I planted nine more marigolds and dug the holes for six more tomorrow. I hope to spend a good deal of tomorrow planting more and more marigolds... and then I'll move on to planting the actual veggies and seeds. I can't wait to lay the mulch down and have it look like a real garden again!
Philip closed at Runza tonight, and when he came home he gifted me with two new DVDs for Mother's Day. We'd talked earlier in the weekend about how I considered his wonderful cooperation and help in getting the garden going was really enough of a present to me (normally he'd really complain about yardwork, but he never uttered a single thing all weekend, and he even did things before I could ask him to or ask him to help me do them - I loved that!), but I guess he still wanted to get me something anyway. They are much appreciated. :-)
I got a fair bit of sun today, so I'm a tiny bit pink tonight. I'd planned for that though, wearing a sleeveless t-shirt and wearing my hair up. It's time to get this tan going. I spent so much time outside last spring and summer, and I was the darkest I'd ever been (though it's still not really much to boast about), and I'm hoping to get a good bit of color this year as well.
After finally turning off the X-Box around 3:30am last night/this morning and saying goodbye to the last buddy, Philip and I made it to bed a little before 4am. (Though I dozed on the couch for almost the last hour - *yawn*.) As such, we slept in this morning. When we did get up, Philip left the bedroom first, and he brought back to me a lovely card and flower corsage from
Heather for Mother's Day. It was a beautiful yellow flower to wear to church... only we didn't go this morning. She's sneaked into the house to leave it on the countertop for me - so sweet!We had a fairly relaxing day. Philip left around 12:45pm to help a friend move into his new house, and the boys and I headed outside. I finished seeding the courtyard with grass (under the boys' careful supervision - aka constant chatter) and watered it. Then A.J. and Jack took turns watering all the seeded spots in the front lawn. I began digging the holes on the perimeter of the garden for the marigolds, and I worked them into the ground while the boys kept a close eye on my pattern (two orange, one yellow, two orange, etc). I was so proud of myself after planting my very first ever flower that I had A.J. call Heather just to tell her I had done it, and both he and Jack talked to her for a while before I finally took over the phone call (with the phone on the 'speaker' setting and laying in the garden while I worked). I only managed to get nine marigolds into the ground before it began to rain just a little bit, and we packed up and came back inside.
While waiting for the weather to decide what it was going to do, I started making a very early dinner. I was working on the grilled chicken when I received a surprise phone call from
the Brain. Though we talk often, it's usually much later at night, and at first I was a little worried to hear from him at only 5pm, and I quickly asked him if something was wrong... but he'd called early just to wish me a Happy Mother's Day! Isn't he the sweetest?! We talked for a little bit, got disconnected for a few minutes and then talked for a little bit more. I was really touched. :-)A few hours after dinner, the boys and I went back outside until it was dark. With their help once again, I planted nine more marigolds and dug the holes for six more tomorrow. I hope to spend a good deal of tomorrow planting more and more marigolds... and then I'll move on to planting the actual veggies and seeds. I can't wait to lay the mulch down and have it look like a real garden again!
Philip closed at Runza tonight, and when he came home he gifted me with two new DVDs for Mother's Day. We'd talked earlier in the weekend about how I considered his wonderful cooperation and help in getting the garden going was really enough of a present to me (normally he'd really complain about yardwork, but he never uttered a single thing all weekend, and he even did things before I could ask him to or ask him to help me do them - I loved that!), but I guess he still wanted to get me something anyway. They are much appreciated. :-)
I got a fair bit of sun today, so I'm a tiny bit pink tonight. I'd planned for that though, wearing a sleeveless t-shirt and wearing my hair up. It's time to get this tan going. I spent so much time outside last spring and summer, and I was the darkest I'd ever been (though it's still not really much to boast about), and I'm hoping to get a good bit of color this year as well.
Picking up Jack from preschool.
May. 12th, 2006 12:00 pmWhen I arrived at the preschool to pick Jack up, there was a line outside of the CUTEST little Mother's Day gifts that I've ever seen! Little concrete masterpieces - so adorable!
When I collected Jack from the Alphabet Carpet (where we're to meet the kids each day), he handed me a poem that he'd signed, and he'd painted a butterfly on the back. Then we found his gift on the sidewalk outside and picked it up. Little cups (that each child picked out) embedded in cement and filled with soil and flowers. On the side of the cup, the kids could put their handprint - though Jack said he hadn't done it because it was "yucky" (I'm not surprised in the slightest!). The kids decorated the cement with colored rocks, too. They are too cute!
( Pics! )
When I collected Jack from the Alphabet Carpet (where we're to meet the kids each day), he handed me a poem that he'd signed, and he'd painted a butterfly on the back. Then we found his gift on the sidewalk outside and picked it up. Little cups (that each child picked out) embedded in cement and filled with soil and flowers. On the side of the cup, the kids could put their handprint - though Jack said he hadn't done it because it was "yucky" (I'm not surprised in the slightest!). The kids decorated the cement with colored rocks, too. They are too cute!
( Pics! )
