Trying to work out a 'summer schedule' for school work, field trips, gardening, etc. is proving really challenging. We have been so busy the past several weeks that getting *any* school work done has been next to impossible. The social aspect of our lives is all consuming and I really need to take a step back and really examine the activities we do, when we are out of the house. We eat out more than we eat in and that is really hard on the wallet and not healthy at all. How can I manage to stay at home more? Getting my head wrapped around all that we do is even harder... It's so overwhelming.
The kids have summer theatre camp this year and we have our vacation this summer as well. Next fall, I will be making some hard decisions on what activities we do and don't do, but for now, we will just keep plugging away getting in as much as we can until the activities wind down a bit. The kids' plays are on May 21st, and we won't have theatre again until late summer for theatre camp. This will free our Mondays up for a while. I am trying to plan more weekend activities for our family because midweek field trips really throw off our school schedule. Working with three children has proven really difficult this year and I have floundered quite a bit on how to do it. So frustrating...
On the plus side, the few hours a week, I spend tending my garden have begun bearing fruit both literally and figuratively. My 5 gallon bucket of spinach and quart of strawberries were very tasty! When I go out in the evenings to tug at the weeds, pick off the pests, water, fertilize and train the vining plants, I totally relax. I long for the moment that I can escape out into the yard each day to play in my garden.
Evie helped me weed for a while today and it was a lot of fun describing the differences between the weeds and the plants. She is raising some lady bugs to go into the garden in a kit we ordered for her at Christmas. She's really loving watching her larvae turn into pupae. They are kind of creepy little things, but the end result, will hopefully be some lady bugs that can eat any mites, mealy worms, and aphids in my garden! I may have to order a few more kits for her to increase our lady bug numbers.
Asher is not too keen on the garden, mostly because he knows there are brussel sprouts out there that will hit his plate this summer. But he accepts that I love my garden and that it is important to me, so he leaves me to it. Oz and Isaac still love watering the plants, but sometimes try to help a little too much. Oz is really quick to help pull weeds and pull up things that aren't weeds.
Promising to post pictures soon of my garden, I have some I took several weeks ago, but the plants have grown to enormous proportions since then and I just don't think the pictures I have do it all justice!
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