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A little while ago, I’d gotten the kiddoes to help me plant some seeds… and this weekend we put the herbs in little clay pots on my kitchen windowsill. I’ve got 2 each of parsley, thyme, and basil, and I’ve got one of garlic chives. I hate growing garlic chives, they’re so picky!!

Amongst the other seeds we’d planted, we have 6 cherry tomato plants, about a dozen onion plants, about a dozen Nasturtium plants (wayyyyy better than garlic chives, if you ask me… their flavor is unbeatable. ), some oregano, and 5 pepper plants. All are doing well, except the pepper plants. They’re… slow.

I finally came up with the schematic I’m going to use for the garden in the back… I just don’t know how much of everything I want to plant, because this is the first year where we have the room to grow everything I want to. I know I’m going to plant a lot of tomatoes, zucchini and cucumber.. and I’ve already talked to a few people I know about giving them a basket now and then with extras so that they don’t spoil.. I don’t know what it is about people refusing free veggies. My mom was almost offended when I told her I’d drop off a basket of tomatoes and cucumbers now and then… she went off about how she’s not broke and doesn’t need me to feed her… it’s not about that. It’s about I have them, and they’re going to spoil if I can’t deal with them all when I need to, and so I want to share. Jeeez!! Relaaaax! Can’t she just accept a gift? O.o

Emilie is becoming quite the young lady… she found, hidden on the top shelf of her closet, a box of nail polish I’d put away, since she oh so loves putting nail polish on the wall, on her sheets, on her siblings, on her stuffed animals…on the dog… and for once, only did her own nails! I’m so proud.

I took Zach with me on the city bus on Friday - I only have one student to teach on Fridays… and while I teach that student, Zach has his guitar lesson. It works out… because dh picks us up then we go out for dinner. He’s getting really good at remembering the names of the strings, and the names of the notes… I’d have taught him myself, since I also teach guitar to a few students… however he doesn’t listen to me half as well as he does an “official” teacher. He’s silly that way… but I suppose that’s typical of kids.

Naomie was tooo cute in the truck… we’d put on a dvd for them to watch, since we had a few errands to run and rather than trek out all of us from store to store, we just parked and one of us (me or dh) would go in the store to get whatever it was we needed to get. Anyways, Emilie, in her normal won’t-shut-up fashion, was blabbing away about something completely unrelated to the movie… and Naomie pipes up : “be quiet, I want to nap”.  Emilie, of course, doesn’t listen and continues to chirp away… and Naomie smacks her thigh and tells her again to be quiet, she’s sleeeeeeping. Dh and I are cracking up in the front… but we let them be… because we’re big on them settling their own problems… and so Emilie finally settles down for a few minutes… just long enough for Naomie to settle in her carseat..close her eyes… and fall asleep. So sweet. <3

Speaking of sweet… she totally melted my heart this weekend. When it came to be nap time, I told the kids it was time for quiet time… and the older two went up, kind of grumbling under their breath and settled quietly in their rooms… and I went to help Naomie up the stairs, but she told me to “stay down, mommy”… and she went up to her bed all on her own. i gave her abuot 5 minutes, then went to check… the brat was in her bed, sleeping already. I miss my needy baby….

On the other hand, I hope she keeps it up.

We had spaghetti last night.. but I didn’t make any garlic bread, because I surprised the kids and made some caramel dumplings… served it with some ice cream… it’s soooo good… but very sweet… and you always take way more than you can stomach… and end up leaving half because it’s just SOOOO SWEET! lol Even the kids couldn’t finish their portions!! ha!

I’m so excited for my show tonight… we’re going to have it recorded because a lot of our SO’s can’t go… and so we can make a dvd of it too… lol

It’s going to be AWESOME! Rock OUT!