{phfr}

    A quick link up here before I hit the hay...   {pretty}  

 

 

 Pretty peonies and pretty girls.
{happy}

Itty bitty zucchinis set on!!!!!

 

Little green tomatoes!!!!!!

(will be staking these plants soon)

 

Tiny peppers budding!!!!!

(camera wouldn't focus!!!!!)

I didn't kill anything (so far)!!!!!!

First-time garden (sort of? maybe? TBD?) a success!!!!!

{funny}

So M was working from home the other day, and he has a picture of the Milky Way galaxy on the desktop of his laptop.  C was sitting next to him, eating breakfast.

"Is dat da Miwky Way?" she asked, pointing.

(Don't ask me how our two-year-old learned about the Milky Way.  I can't take credit.  Probably her sisters.)

 "Why, yes!" replied M.

"Oh.  In da Miwky Way, I would dwink da milk.  Like dis."

(Holds pretend cup of milk up to lips and makes slurping noises.)

These kids.  You just never know what they're going to say!
{real}

 

We sent our letter of intent to home school this week.
So it's real.   I could write a whole post on what led us to the decision, but I'll save that for another day (you can read a few of my preliminary musings from last year here).
I'm only feeling a teensy bit nervous, and that's only in a logistical sense... putting all the puzzle pieces of scheduling and routine together and all that.
Mostly I'm extremely excited.  I have lots of ideas and enthusiasm, and I really feel deep down that this is the right thing for us.
Here we go!