Just random stuff

Well, we have been home a couple of weeks and not much is going on but we seem to be very busy. My garden is producing stuff. The lettuce is just about gone and the carrots are finally big enough to eat. The mister's onions are nearing ready I think - hooray for all of us! The green beans are getting ready to come into existence and I have gotten two cucumbers which I mixed with some of the ripe tomatoes and made a cucumber, tomato and feta salad - yum! Pretty much the only way I like to eat raw tomatoes. We grew roma so I can make sauce so don't judge! Our one plum fell off the tree the other day - well, the mister thinks it was a squirrel. It definitely wasn't J1 so that is good news. It was too high for him to pick plus it was on the tree when we went to bed and on the ground when we got up. Phew. The mister is watching closely since J1 picked most of our apples really early last year - he was so pissed. And he was picking green strawberries too. J1 has been great this year and has not been picking anything he shouldn't. The pear has so much fruit it is sagging and there are tons of apples - should be a nice fall for fruit-eating. The blueberries are just about gone but there are a few strawberries left. I need to harvest and dry the herbs - maybe I'll get some small paper bags at the store and get that going.




I made a tactical laundry error last week. J1 spilled ketchup on our little throw rug in the kitchen so I decided to wash it. It is red and had never been washed so I knew it would bleed. I threw it in with some towels, bibs and a couple of the mister's garage rags. Well, I grossly underestimated the amount of bleeding that would go on and it turned everything *very* pink. That top one is a bib that my MIL made and it says "little prince" and is now totally pink. You need to look at the picture close up to appreciate it. The towel in the back is supposed to be yellow (like the edges) and is completely orange. I tried a wash with vinegar and a wash with bleach and the color didn't change a bit! Oh well, it was only bibs and towels.



It was a bit cold this day so I dressed J2 in long sleeves and pants. For some reason in this outfit, he looked so old. Where did my baby go?



When I was transitioning J2 out of our bedroom (at 7 months when he could finally crawl out of the co-sleeper) I put him in the portable crib in the spare room for a week so he could get used to sleeping alone without keeping J1 up. I felt so bad for him that the first night I took off my shirt and threw it in the crib with him - I had read that the smell would comfort him. Well, since then, he as adopted my shirts as his "blankie". He isn't picky, any t-shirt will do. Luckily I have quite a few I wear only around the house or as nightshirts so he has lots to choose from, I can rotate them for washing and I still have some to wear. Anyway, he used to be okay with just having them while sleeping but lately he sneaks back into his room any chance he gets and takes them out of the crib and drags them all over the house! This day he actually got tangled up in one and wasn't very happy. Didn't help that his mommy was too busy laughing and taking pictures to rescue him.




My bff D and I are having a garage sale next Friday. I decided that I would never have time to list all my boys' clothes on eBay and the off-label ones aren't selling for much anyway so it isn't worth my time. The garage sale is the answer. I also went through the eight totes of toys I had stashed in the spare room and attic and got a bunch to sell. Next I am going to go through my craft room and get out all the CTMH papers I have had since about 2000 and sell those and anything else I can find. I am trying to be brutal. Need D here to enforce it.