Mommathon

We had our yard re-landscaped last year after most of the plants the original landscaper had planted died after we realized they had planted them in clay and all of the plants were just sitting in puddles of water. The re-landscaper we hired did a good job, but really didn’t fill in the beds with as many flowers as we would have liked.

I started working on solving that problem on Monday. I bought a ton of new plants, some weed barrier stuff and some mulch. I got started and it looks great, but I have a lot more work to do and the weather has been cold and wet ever since. I have all of the plants/flowers in their pots waiting to be planted and bags of mulch stacked up and ready to go. Now I just need some decent weather.

Colm got his hair cut today and came out looking like this:

He is in LOVE with his “mohawk”. He was super impressed that the hairdresser had put gel in his hair. He obsessed about it all day…talking about it, touching it ever so gently to make sure it was still in place…we’ll see what happens in the morning. I am not going to start devoting time in the morning to make sure Colm’s hair is gelled just right. 🙂

I have the absolute best view from my kitchen window.

This past week, the farmer who lives across the street has been moving his animals down into the lower fields which are directly across from our house. Some days it’s just the horses, sometimes it’s the sheep and the alpacas and the goats and sometimes all of them together.

We’ve lived here long enough that I can almost feel when there’s supposed to be a rainbow. The right amount of post-rain moisture in the air + sunshine = there’s gotta be a rainbow around here somewhere.

This is the bottom of the bathtub. This was all in Colm’s hair after his baseball game. Don’t ask.

Liam running in his last Jog-a-thon at his school. The Jog-a-thon raises money for the PTO which uses the money to fund programs for the students…everything from our yearly artist in residence, to author visits, field trips, our school’s geography program, etc., etc., etc.

This little masterpiece is from Colm. Liam made me one too, but he can’t find it. 🙂

I don’t know if these are weeds or flowers, but whatever they are, there were tons of them and they were pretty. This photo doesn’t capture just how many flowers there were or how big the fields were that held all of these flowers (or weeds).