Saturday

We went and bought fruits and vegetables to plant in our garden. The kids and I also planted sunflower seeds. I bought seed for kids that are small sunflowers instead of those enormous tree looking flowers. They had fun doing it but when I walked away, Grace took a scoop of dirt out with the shovel so I'm not sure if the seeds are still there. Oh well. I let them each plant 2 seeds in a cup also. We'll move them outside after they start to grow. Andrew was walking around holding his cup up to the sun and said look mommy that dirt moved. I think it's growing. So cute!

We've been cleaning out the garage and totally neglected the house today. This girl came by and wanted to shampoo our carpet for free. The catch was that we had to do the whole kirby presentation. I told her I ABSOLUTELY WAS NOT going to buy a vacuum from them. Oh, that's ok we just want to clean your carpet and blah blah blah. She would not give up so I finally gave in. I need my carpet cleaned anyway and Grace's party is coming up in 2 weeks. So now I have clean carpet. I felt bad for the guy b/c he had to vacuum and shampoo our carpet for nothing. Oh well. David felt bad and gave him $5 and told him to go get dinner. He's technically not allowed to take it but oh well. I didn't want to do the whole thing anyway. I can tell you that I will definitely buy a really nice vacuum when I go back to work and can afford it. Man, my house is dirty. Have you ever had one of those presentations done? Embarrassing!

I'm excited to get working on my garden. I hope I can keep up with it. I also want to learn how to can some of my vegetables and maybe even make preserves and jam with some of my fruits. That would be really great to have veggies from my own garden to use and not buy stuff at the store all winter. We'll see. Maybe canning will have to come later. I should probably just get the hang of this gardening thing first.

Well, we are off to take baths. The kids are super dirty from being outside playing all day. I have to go take care of washing Grace's hair b/c it is so full of tangles and well, David is just a guy and he doesn't always get all the soap out. Have a great night and Sunday!