Our "Garden"

(This is also posted on my cooking blog.)

Last summer Will and I attempted to grow a tomato plant and zucchini plant on our back patio. I failed. They were both growing really well for awhile, but I think I started them too late, and it just got too hot for them to thrive and produce anything. So this year I decided to get an earlier start. I was at Target recently when they had plants on sale, so I got a zucchini plant and a strawberry plant. I was going to get a tomato plant but then saw the strawberry ones and figured that would be better since my kiddos love strawberries.

Will and I planted them a couple weeks ago, and so far so good!! The zucchini plant doesn't seem to be growing a whole lot but it does have blossoms on it, so I take that as a good sign. The strawberry plant is doing pretty amazing! I'd say we've gotten at least eight strawberries off it so far! Considering most things I try to grow end up dead not long after I plant them, I think eight strawberries is pretty spectacular.

Here are some pics of our patio garden...

The plant! See how it's thriving? (Never mind the size of it when I bought it...you don't need to know everything...)


My helpers


Our first crop!


Mmmm...the fruit of our labors...

Two Face's Disciples

This was too funny, I had to write it down immediately so I didn't forget it. While I was eating my lunch Will was "reading" me a Batman book. He was telling me who all the villains are and describing the scene on each page. He got to the page with Two Face and his henchmen.

"Mom, that's Two Face and those [pointing at the henchmen] are his disciples."

I totally cracked up.

Drowning in baby clothes

I'm finally getting around to boxing up baby clothes and giving them away. John's cousin's wife is pregnant with a boy, so I'm going to send some to them, see if my friends want to go through them for their kids, and then I'm not sure what to do with the rest. Probably donate them somewhere.

Anyway, it's been literally months since I've boxed up clothes that are too small for Miles. I've just been shoving them in his closet. I finally pulled them out today so I can start going through them to send off to John's cousin. I could not believe how many there were!! I tossed them all out in the hallway along with the boxes in Miles' closet that already had some clothes in them, so I can sort through everything.



I really should have put something next to the pile so you could get a real appreciation for how much is there. It's completely nuts I tell you!!