So I realized after my last entry that I never told you anything about the garden we planted.
Monday, April 14, we planted our garden as our family night activity. It was VERY fun. The kids and I went and picked out the plants before dad got home so that we could be ready to plant. We planted a “little†garden this year. We only have a little bit of space that gets enough sunlight to have a successful garden. In the back we planted: peas, corn, crooked neck squash, zucchini squash and spaghetti squash, watermelon, cantaloupe and carrots. In the front we planted a grape tomato and a big tomato. We shall see what comes of it. The peas and spaghetti squash were planted as seeds and have sprouted nicely. The corn is visibly bigger. One zucchini plant is looking good. The other stuff is still trying to take root and grow. We hope it all grows in the end and we can have yummy veggies all summer.
On to this last week:
Wednesday, April 23, was a very fun day. We went to P.E. In the morning. We got rained on a little bit but it cleared up nicely by the afternoon. Scott got home about 4:30pm. We had bought tickets to an A’s game and were very excited to go. The tickets were $2 each and hot dogs were a buck. We left Niah and Afton at the Bennetts and took Toby and Jessie with us. Dave Bennett gave us the idea to use a rope to keep track of all the kids. So when we got to the stadium we got the rope out, explained how it worked and all the kids did great. We walked to our seats then Scott bailed to get some hot dogs. The kids downed them, no problem plus all the snacks we brought before the 3rd inning!! We splurged on some cotton candy and then about the 5th inning went for more hot dogs. The game got over about 9:30 and the kids were awesome!! They cheered and yelled for the A’s. They sat good and when they got antsy they still were easy to control. It was a great evening and worth repeating anytime!
Thursday, April 24, we had a low key morning and then the day really started. Jaime had piano at 3:30, dance at 4:30 and I had a stake primary meeting at 7:30pm. Unfortunately, while I was at the stake meeting I sat wrong, or church chairs are just down right uncomfortable, whatever the reason I was in pain! Half way through the meeting I had to get up and stand in the back. By the time I was going home I could barely walk the pain was so bad. I slept pretty good that night though and woke up thinking all was well.
Friday was a low key day too, good thing! Afton always wakes me up at 6:32 (give or take a minute) but this morning she didn’t wake up till 7 am (that should have been my first clue). When I went to get her she was just lying there half asleep and whining. I picked her up and she was burning up with fever. I brought her down stairs and gave her some medicine and a drink of apple juice. That seemed to make her happy. I made her a little bed on the couch so she could be with the family and made breakfast for the rest of the kids. After eating and getting everyone dressed I noticed Afton was asleep. I told everyone to leave her alone and let her sleep. She slept for a good hour and a half. When she woke up she was a little squirmy (clue number 1, you’d think after all these years I would have picked up on it). I went over and picked her up and started to comfort her. I sat down in a chair and just as I did, she barfed down my shirt. Then lifted her head and barfed in my hair and down my back. It was at this point I was super grateful for my older girls. I asked one of them to please get me a towel. Alix ran to the dryer and grabbed one. Jaime so kindly put it around me and put Afton’s head on it so she would finish the job in the towel. I then (after years of experience) had enough sense to stay in one place till she was all done (in the past I would have tried to run for the bathroom, thus leaving a trail of barf from the living room to the bathroom, I have since learned it’s easier to just clean up one spot and be done with it…). After I was sure she was done I gave Alix and Jaime their instructions and went upstairs to clean the two of us up. After the clean up job I put Afton down for her nap in her crib. She did not throw up the rest of the day but I did ask Scott to come home early so he could take Milo to his sports class. I did not feel that Afton should be taken out in that condition. So we spent the rest of the afternoon with me trying to hold Afton (it’s not too comfy for either one of us). After Scott left with Milo, Jaime and Alix, Niah and Afton and I went upstairs to watch a movie. About 45 minutes later I realized I needed to go make dinner. So I carried Afton back down the stairs. I guess my body had had enough, not only did my bum muscles still hurt from the night before but I tweaked my back somehow and could not move very well. I don’t remember having hurt so bad in the back before. I managed to at least get dinner started and then Scott finished it and ate with the kids while I died on the couch. We let the kids watch a movie before going to bed. I saw a good 10 minutes of it before I was out! I guess I can’t carry Afton up and down the stairs for a while….
Saturday (today) was a good day. I woke up in a good amount of pain. That frustrated me to no end. Saturday is our productive day because there are two adults to manage kids and chores. So I was more on the manage kids end, I didn’t actually get much done. Scott left early this morning to fix someone’s computer problems but was back by 11am. He managed to get all the yard work done. Then I left and went to Wal Mart to get a few things. It was difficult walking around but somehow I made it through. In the end I think it helped the issue. By the time I got back home, most of my kinks seemed bearable and easy to deal with. I was glad about that! At four Jaime, Alix and I went to a baptism. At 6 we all went to a fund raiser for the Y.W. They had a spaghetti feed and it was awesome. We had fun talking and socializing with people we only see on Sundays. We found out that another lady in the ward, Julia Madson, is pregnant. That makes 6 babies that have/will be born in our ward this year. In the last 10 years we have lived here, this is a record! We are now home. All the kids are soundly sleeping. Scott is putting the finishing touches on his lesson for tomorrow and I’m just typing away, grateful for being pain free!!
Today, on our way to Wal Mart Jaime says to me “Mom, it’s a good thing I’m with you, I know how to get to Wal Mart in case you get lost.†“Well Thank You Jaime, you are so thoughtful†I say. Then Jaime continues “Well you know, old people tend to loose their way easily. And with you getting older, you never know when you might get lost.†“Yes, Jaime, Thank you for being so helpful!!†It was sooooo VERY funny.
Later in the afternoon, Scott said to me “I took my shoes off because my feet were getting hot and sweaty.†Niah, sitting right next to him, didn’t miss a beat “And stinky too!â€
Afton’s newest cute thing is she will ask, if she has lost something or if a bird flies away, “where go?†and then shrug her shoulders and put her hands out, palm up and say “I dunnoâ€. It’s amazingly cute!!
I guess that is the extent of our news. The kids say so many cute things that I vow I will remember until I get a chance to write them down, but then I forget. I love our babes and are glad that we have such a wonderful family. I love my family and my ability to care for them; physically, mentally, socially, spiritually and every other lly that you can think of!! :0)
I think I’ll have to get you an early “baby” gift at one of those massage places…