The Garnets Won

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I'm a winner!!

I finally broke my losing streak of 29+ (++) years and won a fabulous gift card to Novica! Thanks to Andrea at Rural Revival! For those of you who haven't checked out Novica or Rural Revival...I highly recommend both!:) I am having a hard time deciding between garnets for myself or something else lovely for others...I have always loved garnets though...

In other news, got to spend the weekend with my brother, his wife and their two girls this weekend, it was so much fun to have them! This is as close to my kids get to cleaned up and picture ready...

We've planted some seeds this year and they are actually still alive, well, most are, we did have a small incident involving Punch and a tray of watermelon...but all and all things are growing! These little onion seedlings are so amazing! They came out of their little seed folded in half and now they are stretching out. We also planted some tomato, peppers, rhubarb and basil. Can't wait to taste the salsa this will hopefully all turn into!

For the love of books

As a lover of books, I have been anxiously awaiting the day when Pearl professes that she has found a wonderful book that she can't put down; I imagine this opening the door to indepth book discussions, me sharing the books I loved at her age, etc. etc. So, the other day I was SOOO happy to see Pearl and Evelyn with a big stack of books!! I figured they were going to snuggle in together, reading through their stack. Well, this is what I found a bit later on my kitchen floor:




Snuggled up together reading books? Nope, they were creating a ranch with the books acting as different pastures...guess I'll keep waiting.



In other news, here's the view out my living room window today. We are thankful for the moisture, but I am ready for some rain!!