Mystery Ladies

I was walking home today from lunch at the school and had an interesting encounter with a sweet older man. He lives on Bay Owl, I think his house # was 380 or 360. I saw him and his wife sitting out on the front porch and the next thing I know he was crossing the street coming to approach me. I have never seen nor talked to this man before. He proceeded to tell me a story, it went a little something like this: My wife suffers from dementia and last week I woke up in the night about 3 am and I found her on the floor of the bedroom. I reached over and touched her and she was freezing cold, and I'm pretty sure you know what I thought had happened (meaning she might have passed on), but I couldn't lift her up into her bed. She was against the wall. So by then it was about 5 am and I could here outside some ladies walking or running. I could here their thumping. I went out and stopped them to see if they could help me and they came right in and helped her get back in bed. Their sound of them running was music to my ears. That is my sweet wife over there on the porch, she doesn't know who I am. She has had that for about 5 years. So I just wondered if you had heard anything about who these 2 special ladies are, I just really want to thank them, but I don't know who they are." So I told him I would keep my ears open and pass it on. I walked away holding back tears because he was so sweet. So if any of you ladies know who helped him, know that he is truly grateful.

Gardening

I am not sure if Gardening is really what I am doing. I am really still learning a lot, and hope to keep improving on my garden each year. Up until this year, I just haven't put a ton of effort into the gardening thing. Between being pregnant and having babies, I just have not had the energy, so this is the year I am starting. The spot we used for gardening was just covered in weeds, and some grass. We tilled it up, but there are lots of weeds starting to grow. So we got out there and are trying to get the weeds out. They are little baby ones and come out pretty easy. I did find quite a few ants and some baby earwigs, so I am pretty sure that is why some of my seeds never grew. The dang bugs probably ate them. Where money is real tite this year, I will grow what I can, and just try to improve every year. I have some tomatoes doing really good, pumpkins, zucchini, corn, a few beans came up, and a couple strawberry plants, oh and a rhubarb plant that survived Brad mowing it every year for the last few years. I know a lot of you really have some incredible gardens and I love to look at all the ideas. It gives me hope that someday I can have a beautiful yet yummy garden.

Boys & Girls Club

Yesterday was the first day of Boys & Girls Club for my kids. They were pretty excited. They got up and we got jobs done, had piano lessons. It was a great motivator. I think I am going to change up our piano lesson schedule because 3 in a row in one morning makes it hard on my baby. Anyways, we walked down there, to the school, around 11:15. I had my 2 extras, but Aleena and Hallie walked and Parker and Livee got the stroller ride. I didn't stay with them. I just checked them in and off they went. I noticed the school is offering the free summer lunch program for 1yr. old-18 yr olds Monday - Friday , so I took the 4 little ones over and fed them lunch. I will be doing that most days. It is a great way to get me out walking, plus it will help us save a few dollars, plus it is a nice change from PB & J =) Aleena & Amy thought it was really cool to eat lunch like the big kids. Livee thought she was quite cool too. She had to sit on the bench like the big girls and she actually ate really good. I will be taking a sippy cup next time for her. They served them a chicken/cheese burrito, corn, applesauce, choc. chip cake, and choc. milk. The older kids in B&G club get lunch there also. It is just really awesome.

I picked up the big kids around 4:30. They were outside having a snack. They all like the lounge room which has big screen, couches, Savanna thought the huge stack of board games they had will be fun. They have a room with hockey, fuz ball, and different games that Jase can't wait to play. They did a lot of touring and learning the rules yesterday so there wasn't a ton of playing, but they are excited. THey all saw some of their friends there too. Hopefully this will be a great program to keep them from being bored.