A Spring Salad of Saturday Pictures
Before heading to Z's soccer game yesterday morning I cooked breakfast, did the dishes, swept the floors, made the bed, and loaded the washing machine with a load of laundry, oh, and I cut up the vegetables for the crockpot stew.
Potatoes, rutabaga, turnips, onions.... No, we don't put strawberries in the stew! Those were out for snacking on this morning.
Just rinsing the root veggies.
Freshly ground coffee beans seemed like a good idea this morning. Mmmm. Espresso roast. This is why I enjoy drinking a cup of coffee.
Then I took Z to his soccer game and J and W went to the store and bought stuff for W's science project. He has to make a replica of the planet Mars.
On the way home from soccer (I'll post pictures of a soccer game another time) we stopped at a big giant store and bought a couple of bags of garden soil compost mix. And a new pair of garden gloves for me :)
Then it was time for lunch. I made sandwiches. American style.
And there is a picture of the sandwich lunch.
Imitation everything, because they like it this way.
And as the mother who loves them I certainly don't serve this up all the time - rarely, in fact - so when I do they think I am the cat's meow. It is ironic.... When I (out of my heartbursting love) serve up wholesome healthy grain bread with delicious healthy veggie and real cheese toppings I am not so popular. But when I (reluctantly) serve up this kind of crap, I am all that!
After lunch I took the boys on a quick run to the library to pick up a few books with nice big pictures of the planet Mars. Then I stopped by La Maison and we fikade and W had a very small cup of coffee. He was all, "I would like a coffee" when we were placing our order to Vince. I was all, "What, since when do you drink coffee?" So he got a small espresso sized cup with regular coffee in it and then he added sugar and milk and then he sat there at the little cafe table hugging the little espresso sized cup near his face with both of his hands with his elbows on the table and his eyes staring into the space and he was thinking about something or nothing and he looked like a kid who one day would be all grown up.
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We are planting a veggie garden again this spring. Today was lovely and the dirt in the garden plot was perfectly dried out to turn and mix with compost. Within a couple of hours the garden plot was transformed from a corner in the yard of just dirt to a tidy plot with heaped rows and planted seeds.
I made the labels from plain old see-through duck tape and paper and markers which I attached to pieces of bent wire coat hanger wire...
Like this!
At the end of this big Saturday filled to the brim with doing all sorts of things and after we had our crockpot stew, we enjoyed a late evening fika and tasted the Sour Cream Almond Cardamom Coffee Cake I baked. Whoo hoo! Yummy!
The rest of the evening was spent doing quiet things. J was reading War and Peace, Z was drawing pictures, and here is W writing his first ever book. He is on chapter four now.
Potatoes, rutabaga, turnips, onions.... No, we don't put strawberries in the stew! Those were out for snacking on this morning.
Just rinsing the root veggies.
Freshly ground coffee beans seemed like a good idea this morning. Mmmm. Espresso roast. This is why I enjoy drinking a cup of coffee.
Then I took Z to his soccer game and J and W went to the store and bought stuff for W's science project. He has to make a replica of the planet Mars.
On the way home from soccer (I'll post pictures of a soccer game another time) we stopped at a big giant store and bought a couple of bags of garden soil compost mix. And a new pair of garden gloves for me :)
Then it was time for lunch. I made sandwiches. American style.
And there is a picture of the sandwich lunch.
Imitation everything, because they like it this way.
And as the mother who loves them I certainly don't serve this up all the time - rarely, in fact - so when I do they think I am the cat's meow. It is ironic.... When I (out of my heartbursting love) serve up wholesome healthy grain bread with delicious healthy veggie and real cheese toppings I am not so popular. But when I (reluctantly) serve up this kind of crap, I am all that!
After lunch I took the boys on a quick run to the library to pick up a few books with nice big pictures of the planet Mars. Then I stopped by La Maison and we fikade and W had a very small cup of coffee. He was all, "I would like a coffee" when we were placing our order to Vince. I was all, "What, since when do you drink coffee?" So he got a small espresso sized cup with regular coffee in it and then he added sugar and milk and then he sat there at the little cafe table hugging the little espresso sized cup near his face with both of his hands with his elbows on the table and his eyes staring into the space and he was thinking about something or nothing and he looked like a kid who one day would be all grown up.
- - - -
We are planting a veggie garden again this spring. Today was lovely and the dirt in the garden plot was perfectly dried out to turn and mix with compost. Within a couple of hours the garden plot was transformed from a corner in the yard of just dirt to a tidy plot with heaped rows and planted seeds.
I made the labels from plain old see-through duck tape and paper and markers which I attached to pieces of bent wire coat hanger wire...
Like this!
At the end of this big Saturday filled to the brim with doing all sorts of things and after we had our crockpot stew, we enjoyed a late evening fika and tasted the Sour Cream Almond Cardamom Coffee Cake I baked. Whoo hoo! Yummy!
The rest of the evening was spent doing quiet things. J was reading War and Peace, Z was drawing pictures, and here is W writing his first ever book. He is on chapter four now.
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