What's up with me

I have the kids off to bed, thanks to Jim's help. Some days (and this was one of them) I just can't take another minute with them. So bad, especially after Mother's Day and all those talks about nice patient moms. I had 8 girls here this afternoon, though: my 4, my 3 nieces, and the next door neighbor girl, and Jim didn't get home till after 6:30 pm, so it was just me with loud wild children that argue all the time with each other -- what is up with that?? It seems like my kids are going through a nasty phase of fighting all the time. Does anyone have any suggestions besides me (shouting), Stop arguing! Ugh.

Anyway, I'm almost done with planting in my garden; I keep adding more rows, but I think I'll stop now, and just maintain the garden. Except I have 2 more rows to do with butternut squash, and maybe romaine lettuce. I have been obsessed with gardening (which is completely new for me!). I've been working every day on it, and it's almost all I talk about with Jim, who is not as enthused, but tolerant of my excitement. I've just never had a real garden before where I start with seeds! Except I bought 2 tomato plants today; oh, and my neighbor gave me some radish plants that she had started in a little pot. But everything else is with seeds: watermelon, cantaloupe, corn, yellow squash, zucchini, carrots, cabbage, cucumbers, and peas (plus the butternut & lettuce). Huh, that's a lot!

Well, I had a good Mother's Day (except for feeling guilty during the M-day talks about wonderful moms). Just kidding, sort of. My celebration actually started on Saturday -- Kate & Brynna made lunch for everyone, so I didn't have to: ham & cheese sandwiches and sliced bananas. Then Jim made dinner for us that night: grilled steaks - yum! On Sunday, we had a potluck dinner of Navajo tacos for my mother-in-law with the whole family -- that was yummy, too!

Well, 2 more weeks of school! The girls and I are going to spend a week in Buckeye/valley area after school lets out -- kind of a kick off to our summer vacation. That'll be nice to hang out with family.

Okay, I guess that's mainly it with news -- here's some more pics taken recently:


This was taken on Saturday -- the girls were helping me plant watermelon seeds here.


Brynna posing by the irises -- these were planted by K Lyman -- actually, everything but my own little garden was planted by K -- I just try to keep it going!


Another garden picture taken this morning after corn planting, but before tomato planting.


Kira & Lissy -- notice Kira's still in her pajamas -- I cannot get her to change out of pajamas in the morning! She insists on wearing them all morning...


In the rose garden -- those red flowers are the first ones to bloom -- they're gorgeous, but I don't know what kind they are!



Found a snake today and managed to catch it, so kids could look at it. Kate seemed a little concerned at first, kept commenting about the diamond pattern on it, like it was a diamondback, but I said there were no rattles, so we're okay. No one else was brave enough to hold it, though -- it was a bigger one.