Farmer's Market

Saturday morning. I wake up, throw random clothes on, and I'm off to the farmer's market. Rain or shine. Today was rain but that doesn't stop me. Today was very exciting because they had produce. Some of our farmer's have greenhouses and so they had some great stuff. Here's what I picked out: 

 Cherry tomatoes out of a greenhouse, I also bought a big tomato as well.

 Potatoes

 cabbage, cucumbers and home made preserves, blueberry and cherry.

 Home made bread

 These lilies were only 50 cents a stem!

 Trying out some of the blueberry preserves.

She gave it a thumbs up.

Can't wait to see what they have for us next week:)

Engagement Pary Ideas

So as the Maid of Honor, I am helping with the engagement party. She wants it to be themed 'Love'. So here are some ideas I've been looking at. Let's see if she likes any of them. It's a month away, we need a jump on it.

 Cupcakes seem to be a must for these things. That seemed about the most popular refreshment at engagement parties.

And the decorations, so many types and colors to choose from....

Don't these photos just make you smile?! Well, we still have a ways to go. Hopefully we can stay in budget.

Maid of Honor

I am so stoked! My best friend is getting married and has asked me to be the Maid of Honor. I have been to weddings before, but I never had one myself (we eloped) and I have never been in one. So I am super excited. We went to the dress store today to get ideas. She is leaning towards the purple hues, which I am just loving. Her ideas are great, and it is all very exciting. Here a few of the ideas that the bride as thought up...

White wedding dress with purple on it somewhere, little black dresses for the brides maids with purple sashes/ bows, and the flower girl with some sort of purple dress. I'm thinking that I will be posting more about this, mainly because I'm so excited.

My Little Gardener

I signed Wednesday up for a ton of classes this summer. Today was the first one, Little Green Thumbs. It takes place at the Garfield Park Conservatory. Only $4 a class. They meet once a month for three months. My grandmother found this apron that used to be mine when I was a kid and gave it to me over the weekend. I was super stoked to put it on Wednesday for this. It's fits her perfect right now too.

For the first class, they got to glue a seed onto a piece of paper, then were asked to draw what they thought the seed would grow into.

Then they were read a story about planting a seed and watering it, and seeing it grow, and eating the veggies that grew. After that, we all headed to the garden to start working on our garden. They were all given cards with pictures of veggies on them, and they were instructed to find the matching plant. Wednesday's first plant was a bell pepper plant.

First she dug her hole, then she put the plant in the hole and covered it with dirt. Sounds easy till you try to explain to a 3 year old how to do it. I swear that she doesn't hear me most of the time. I must say, she did very well on the first plant.

So once that was done, she ran around a bit, then we moved onto an eggplant. She wasn't as interested to plant it so I did most of the work on that one.

After the eggplant they were given radish seeds. We poked holes in the soil and dropped one seed in each hole. She seems to like the meticulous job.

Her favourite part was next, watering! What kid doesn't love playing with water. They were each given watering cans and told to water everything they had planted.

After all was done, she was done too. Just ran around like a 3 year old looking for trouble. We will go back in one month to see what has grown. All in all it was a pretty cool class.

Last Day

It has come.... The last day of freedom I would say. I'm not 100% positive that this will turn out completely awful, but I am about 88% sure it will. Not that I'm wishing bad luck on myself. I'm just saying. People don't usually change, and if they do, not in a years time. My heart is in my stomach. My stress is slowly rising like it is going on the high hill of a roller coaster. My adrenaline is sitting on the sidelines waiting for the 'ok' to come in. My husband and I are not quite on the same page at this point which is very bad. With a child you have to be on the same page. This house is a loving environment, and I feel like its about to be taken over by manipulation, rage, mistrust, demand, deceit, insult, intrusiveness, resistance, and just plain HATEFULNESS. Would you want all of those things in you home??? Your home is your refuge from all of those things. So why welcome it??

Some may say, 'She just needs love and support'.  My response: We gave her that for 3 years. We did everything for that little girl. And no, I will not go into details, because what we have done for her is a list to long to type. Something is wrong with her. We try to explain in as few words as possible to people and they just don't hear it. Wether it is because they don't want to believe us or they can't believe us. They think we are exaggerating or whatever, they JUST DON'T GET IT. Until that child lives in your house for an extended period of time, you just don't understand. For example, my mother-in-law has had her for a month, and we have received phone calls every night, and at one point she actually said, "I didn't believe you". REALLY???  NO!.........  So now she understands. Do not blame the parents for the child until you know the story. Because sooner or later, she will be in YOUR house and no one will take her away.

So, just something to think about. I have to go make sure all my valuables are behind lock and key, and anything breakable is not in arms reach. I'm afraid my stomach will stay in knots for a while. I anticipate spending a lot of time at the gym and/or friends houses, or anywhere but here. Lord, help me.

 

Black flowers for a black kind of day.