We started the day with a nice hearty breakfast of challah bread french toast, and it’s a good thing, too, because we needed the energy. Today was busier than yesterday.
After breakfast, Kath started the process of applying waterproof sealer to the deck while the boys helped me sow our first seeds in the garden. We put in spinach and beets today. (Tomorrow we’ll put in the carrots and radishes.) I kind of let them explore a bit, so I’m not expecting neat, segregated rows of perfect seedlings. I’m learning to embrace the chaos that travels with my boys like Pigpen’s cloud. It’s easier to give in than to fight it.
After spending the morning doing that and hanging in the backyard, we had BLTs[1] for lunch and then the boys and I headed to Thomas’ second tee-ball game of the weekend. Thomas played catcher for two of the four innings. No, I don’t know why a catcher is needed.
After tee-ball, we stopped in at the bike shop to make a second attempt at finding a rack to hold panniers on the back of my bike. No luck again.
We arrived home and found Kath breaking in the new lawn tractor. Yee-hah!
I pulled out an old tree-bush-thing while Kath mowed, the boys “washed” my car[2] and I even got to do a little mowing myself, which I found to be very therapeutic.
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We had one of those thrown-together suppers that is surprisingly satisfying, cleaned up, and put the kids in bed – which is where I’m headed in five minutes.
Oh, one more thing. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that as of today we have another shoe-tier (tyer?) in the house. Way to go big D!
