So many things have happened recently! I'd love to blog about everything, but I'm tired so I'll just give a quick rundown of some things! We had some storms and got some good sized hail. We went to the zoo, and it was COLD! We got caterpillars, and are going to watch them grow into beautiful butterflies! Josh found his toes! We have a pair of nesting Morning Doves! I'll probably blog more about Rocky and Mommy Rocky (the doves) and Steve at a later date! It's a great piece of our lives right now.
Here's some updates about our natural living!
The garden is going great! I'll have to grab some updated pictures soon! Our radishes are coming up so big, carrots are just starting to poke though, peppers and tomato's are starting to flower, and onions are doing their thing too! Yay!! We had a bit of a pest problem, but found some organic pest killer!
The health and beauty aspect is hit and miss right now. I returned the stuff I bought for the boys, except the lotion. I'm waiting for their current stuff to run out, and then we'll try it again. My stuff, however, is not going well at all. I'm trying to do things and save money, but I'm finding that it isn't always worth it. I'll keep posting on what ends up working.
Laundry has been a pain in my tushie! I made a mix, equal parts of borax, washing soda, and oxyclean. I also have several other detergents. With the cloth diapers I ended up using so many different things, I think I gave them the stinkies. :( They started smelling like burnt plastic. The other night I had the load on the highest setting, and our whole house started smelling like burnt plastic. The next morning I called the store, and had them come deliver a new one. I'm not sure if it really was the washer, the fact that I added a ton of water, or what! I just felt a clean slate would be best!
Okay, enough of all that! It seems like lately we've had so much going on and I just can't keep up! Since Joshua was born, my life has become a whirlwind of coming and going and not a lot of sitting and relaxing. This weekend I really became just plain exhausted. I kept falling asleep, and it wasn't just a "oh, I dozed off" asleep. It was hardcore, I don't remember anything, waking up with a baby nursing!
The crazy thing is that summers tend to be when we get busier, with outings, sports, vacations, ect. If we're this crazy busy now, what will this summer bring? I was just looking at my calender for the next month and I'm already exhausted! Peyton has swimming lesson's in the morning, Parker has swimming lessons at night (and we have to get into the water with him), we're thinking about a VBS for Peyton, Peyton has a night of coach pitch practice, Saturday morning games, and I have several things planned for playgroups within the first few weeks of June. Gesh! What will I do when all my boys are in sports?!?!?!
I think looking at this calender, realizing how much we already have booked, it's making me want to cherish and try to take a slower approach on our lives right now! I hope that God helps me to SLOOOW down!
Okay, I'm rambling now! I did want to make sure that I posted about one very important thing that happened today! Today is Memorial Day, a day where we take time to honor our men and women who have, who will, and who are serving our country. I hope that people don't just spend this day doing this though. I would hope that this comes as a natural, every day thing!
Well, my grandpa served and was a POW in WWII. My hubby wanted to make sure that we honored him, and my grandma today by visiting their grave. We haven't been to the cemetery since the day we buried my grandma. It's just been to hard. We put some flags around the headstone, tried explaining to the boys the best we could, shed some tears and paid our respect to my hero's!
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