Mmm, refreshing

I have started making a lemonade slushy for when we are working outside on a hot day. Maybe you would like to try making it. :)

 lemon ice

4 Tablespoons lemon juice

4 Tablespoons sugar

1/2 cup water

14 ice cubes

blend together in a blender until smooth. enjoy.

The story of Lemon

I have told you about one Lemon before. But we have had other Lemons in our life. Molly had a friend Lemon who also lived down the road and we would hear about the wonderful things she could do as well. Most recently Lars has had a friend Lemon come play with him.
 His friend is a boy and has spent many nights at our house sleeping on the chair in Lars' room. There have also been times that I stepped on him because I did not see him in the hallway. He and Lars often play with swards and take turns being the bad guy. He eats meals with us a lot. He always brings his own dishes and his own food though he eats the same thing we are having, unless it is something Lars does not like and then Lemon will have what Lars wishes he was having.
 Well, now we have a puppy and we feel that since we have always had  a Lemon around anyway now we can see her. Heidi wasn't sure it was a romantic enough name for her but the rest of us are very comfortable with it.
 This Lemon has been very sweet all except at 3:30 this morning she felt the need to cry loudly about her lonely little bed.
 I'm really finding it hard to believe I have invited a dog to live IN my house, shedding hair and all that comes with being a puppy. I have never been found of animal hair in a house.
 I probably will survive and even enjoy her company. My kids are loving her so much which is one big reason we wanted a dog. I hope she can open the door to animals for them. I really pitied their fear.  

Bakers Man

Pat a cake,
Pat a cake,
Bakers man,
Bake me a cake,As fast as you can,Roll it and pat it,And mark it with a K, and put it in the oven for the kids and me!

Day 15

• We got our school work done right at noon today.
• I made a stew for supper that I thought was rather good but the kids thought it was nasty.
• It was a hot and humid day today. Another day to be thankful for AC.
  
• I cut out a dress for Heidi today.
• I stood out in the front yard visiting with my neighbor after supper while our kids ran around in the yard.
• I made a bow for Lars out of a branch from the crepe myrtle and a piece of yarn. The kids thought it was so cool. He stood around trying to get it to work for the longest time.
  

Day 9

• I mowed the grass again today. only in the front yard this time. I really don't like my grass because it is not thick and it sends up really tall seed things really fast but the rest of the grass doesn't grow very fast at all. Feels like a waste of time to be running back in forth to cut every 10th grass blade.
  
• I think I'm a little bit grumpy tonight. sorry about that little rant.
• Started working on a rag rug again. I am making it out of old t-shirts. I am using whatever color happens to come next so it is getting a farm house look to it. kind of fun.
  
• We used our new school room table today for school. It was very nice. We ate in the dinning room and did school work in the school room amazing really.

8th Day

• We have a table in our school room! We no longer have to do school work at the dinning room table. I am so excited about this. Also if some people are being to loud while other need it quiet we can divide them up.
  
• We went for a short walk today. We walked down to the driveway of our church building and back. We might walk to church this Sunday.
• School went well. We did some stuff with magnets for science today. I really like it that our science curriculum touches on a lot of different kids of science all year long. My kids are to young to have a passion for one type of science. This way they can learn about tons of stuff every year and when they do find something that they love we can start to focus on that one thing then.
• Lars is getting pretty good at riding his little bike.
• I made some chocolate cupcakes this afternoon. I didn't want us to forget what they taste like.
• A bunch of rotary winged aircraft have been flying over today. I'm not sure what is up with that. :)
• We wrote some letters this morning as part of our school.
  

Day 7

• I did a bunch of rearranging again today. Getting things to fit in a new house has been a little challenging since we have smaller living rooms (dinning and living) with more doors in them so it is harder to get stuff to fit in a comfortable way. I'm liking it the way I have it now. The other thing that changed with rooms, We are trying to have a school room now.
• We went to Wednesday night church today.
  
• We are reading Charlotte's Web this week.
  
• It rained here today. The kids ran around in the rain for awhile this morning. They thought that was great fun.

Avocado

Well I am trying to grow and avocado. And it is growing!

So nice

Derek found these beautiful dragonfly hooks for us. he put this up by the back door for me. Such a lovely place for little aprons or rain jackets.

My garden

I love having a place to do a little gardening. It's not much space but it is enough to keep me happy. I can work at it while the kids are playing outside and they also like to try to help me too.