Lucy: “You sneaky little sister!”
as Samantha climbs on top of her in bed
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Grocery shopping with the girls
It’s funny the positions you can be put in by little ones. But it just shows why I prefer to do my grocery shopping early, when the store is empty, even though we usually don’t do it that way any more.
Samantha has added a number of words to her vocabulary lately, including cracker. And she really likes crackers. So when we went down that aisle on Tuesday, thank God at about 8:30 in the morning, she got very excited, and started shouting,
“Ca-ca! Ca-ca! Ca-ca!”
Things Lucy ate this week
For once, the pause in posting wasn’t my fault! Last Saturday Craig put insulation in our attic, and bumped something that killed the electricity in the room with the computer. So that was finally fixed yesterday, when Craig was home in the morning when it was cool enough to get up in the attic again and fix it. But now we’re functional again, anyway.
We’ve been busy in the garden, and I’ll have to put up some details and pictures sooner or later. But the exciting thing, we realized last night, is the variety of foods we’ve had this week. Almost all of which Lucy has at least sampled. Many of which are things I’ve only started eating recently myself. Here’s the list, at least what I can remember, from the last week:
Garden update
The beans have come! It’s garden time, and my first order from Seed Savers has come in, and is already in the ground. Well, not all of them, but nine Flor de Junio, and nine Tejano beans (I only ordered the Flors, apparently the others were lagniappe) are in their appointed squares. Prior to their arrival, we already had onions (some green ones we rescued from the compost pile and some seeds which are just coming up), orange, green, and “chocolate” bell peppers, jalapeño and Anaheim peppers, basil, oregano (which over-wintered) lemon balm, dill, chives, parsley, orange mint, salad greens (some of which have already bolted and been removed, including the bacon-flavored one, whatever it was), and several types of tomatoes. The daffodils and tulips are bloomed out, and the iris are in full bloom now (some yellow and some white, with some white and purple on their way). I put in some morning glory seeds in pots in hopes of getting them to climb the play ground the porch posts. The orange tree is blooming (I wish I could send you a smell of it – it is amazing!) and the jasmine is almost there. All the berry bushes (ok, they’re not bushes yet, they’re sticks) have new growth, so in two years, if nothing goes wrong, we will have berries, too!
Triduum
I love the Latin with the double u’s. And we had occasion over the past weekend to find out the real reason that we get Easter Monday off of school. It’s to allow people with small children to recover from the Triduum.
Or not, since I think that’s probably just us. But we survived it – two hours on Holy Thursday with an un-napped three-year-old, two hours Good Friday, and over three hours on Holy Saturday. Here’s the blow-by-blow.
Lucy says…
Lucy (playing with my hair): I’m going to pull your hair out (=make it stand up). I want to make it look funny. Like Daddy.
Lucy (checking Craig’s knee with a hammer): I’m not a doctor, I’m a fixin’ girl.
