Archive for June, 2011
Potty Learning
Sunday, June 26th, 2011When Atticus’ school rolled over from regular year to the summer program most of his class moved up. Had he been born a few months earlier he would have followed his classmates. Instead, he and a few others stayed behind to be the “leaders” in the class. They get the chance to show all the [...]
Rain Barrels- or the lack thereof
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011When we moved into this house last summer I really wanted to install a rain barrel of two. It didn’t happen. We had bigger fish to fry and then it was wintertime. I’ve read that you should empty your barrels during winter so they don’t break due to the water expanding when it freezes. This [...]
We could have a tragedy on our hands
Monday, June 20th, 2011If Atticus doesn’t lay off the blueberries he’s going to look like this! Oh, did I mention that blueberries don’t really agree with him in the diaper department? I didn’t? Well, believe you me, things are rather blue around here.
My Little Composting Conundrum
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011Now that I’ve actually gotten my compost in working order I’m finding a funny little Catch-22, if you will. All winter I had plenty of dried leaves and to a huge amount “greens” otherwise known as kitchen scraps. We had the plenty of coffee grounds and tea bags along with onion skins and the occasional [...]
Forgive me, Mother Earth. I have sinned… AGAIN!
Monday, June 13th, 2011I let Atticus play with a running hose– for an hour! What was I supposed to do? He was bored in the house and it was too hot to walk to the pool. The sandbox isn’t fun anymore and neither is the wheelbarrow or the golf set. He was shoving the hose in my face [...]
My Heartmelts
Thursday, June 9th, 2011I’m sure I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again… Atticus never ceases to amaze me! Some times a whole week can go by and I won’t see a huge leap developmentally speaking. Then we have weeks like this! It all started Tuesday while I was cooking lunch. When I make pasta, I typically [...]
Please excuse me while I go vomit… again!
Saturday, June 4th, 2011I honestly thought I’d seen it all when it came to cloth diapers. Last night I learned I was dead wrong. Way back in the day, when Mark and I were discussing the possibility of using CDs, I said I’d do all the washing and scraping if it made him feel more comfortable. That sealed [...]
Nature vs. Nurture
Friday, June 3rd, 2011This has been a topic that has started to come up at lot lately. Atticus is starting to develop his imagination and it’s a lot of fun watching him pretend to vacuum the living room, water the plants, and use his dump truck to move sand around his sandbox. All of those above things he’s [...]
My First Canning Failure
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011So Atticus is at school right now and I just tried my hand at canning peaches. BIG FAT FAIL! Yesterday Mark brought home 18 pounds of the yummy fruits and they were just screaming “can me.” We decided that pie filling is a must along with some canned in a light syrup. The recipe said [...]
Our Holiday Weekend
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011It’s amazing how much happens in life when you don’t have your computer! Thursday I dropped off my computer to have some warranty work done. Since it was a long weekend, I didn’t get it back until Tuesday. In the meantime we had a blast. Friday, Mark’s parents came down from Connecticut to visit for [...]