It worked. I stopped worrying and started focusing on being engaged. Worry seems to be a character flaw of mine, but I'm evolving. Since physical digging was an impossibility, I dug head first into gardening books. I discovered the names of two perennials in my yard, and how I can spread them. One of them is Tickweed, pictured. I started my garden plan notebook and am researching how I can start plants indoors.
I've read somewhere that our children are so nature deprived, they don't even know the names of the plants in their own yards. I'm guilty of this myself, so my goal is to learn what is growing in my yard, and pass on that info. Last year the boys seem to enjoy helping out our neighbor with her garden, and I hope we can cultivate our own plot this year. Growing suburban grass is not that thrilling after all. (Hey! I don't even know the name of the grass species under that snow!)
As for connecting with the boys, DS13 and I have been playing Scrabble with each other and our extended family through Facebook. (Man that is addicting!!) We're also loving Pathwords and Scramble. Need to waste time, open up a Facebook account! LOL! (Actually, the word games aren't a waste of time. Its one way how unschoolers learn language arts.)
We made Mancakes together. Make the biggest pancake that will fit in your pan and that's a "mancake." Of course mine was more of a "womancake", loaded with fresh sliced strawberries.
We had a great discussion about rabies. (Yes, I just transitioned from pancakes to a hideous disease.) We may have gotten a little too into it, because we began to spook DS10. I think he has my worry gene.
Today may prove to be another stressful one for me. I have to work more hours away from our Sleepyhouse, but I'm more calm knowing this is temporary.
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Sometimes we worry about things which we can't do anything about even if we wanted. Then it's a lot more reasonable to focus on the things we can do something about and not put the energy to some things which cannot be done anything about, no matter how much we worried.
This is not so easy in every situation but I've learned through experience that it's never worth wasting energy to something negative unless it's completely necessary.
I'm so glad you are doing better today. I hear ya about addiction on Facebook. Mine is Word Challenge. I suck at it but I keep trying. Before I know it a hour has passed. LOL
Glad your "funk" is behind you! :) We all get there now and then. It's not a good destination, and never someplace to stay for long, but we all seem to find a path that leads there at times in our lives. It's good when the path is not a dead end!!
One of my fondest childhood memories is of visiting Granny Kelly's house in the Spring. She would meet us on her front porch, and before we even went inside, she would walk us through their yard, stopping at each shrub and flower to talk about it. They had a grape arbor, a vegetable garden, beautiful peonies, huge hydrangeas, rhubarb, lilac trees.... gosh it was wonderful and she loved her gardens so! I wish I could tell her now how much those times meant to me.
How blessed you were to have Granny Kelly! Speaking of rhubarb, I just learned if you have steel pans that need sprucing, boil chunks of rhubarb for a few minutes and the acid in them will polish your pans. I can't wait to try this.
I miss rhubarb!! It doesn't grow down here. The grocery has it sometimes, in sorry looking bundles. The frozen stuff just isn't the same. We used to pick a stalk of it and start munching - making sour faces, but it was good! MMmmmmmm to rhubarb pie!! Mom would cook it like applesauce, too, which is also delicious. Now I want some rhubarb!!
glad things were much better
Glad you are feeling better also. I was thinking about starting a nature journal too, my kids are always asking what plant name is and I usually don't have a clue. We do have some raspberry bushes in our backyard that need care and I am hoping with a little tlc we will have raspberries this summer. We also have load of weeds along our fenceline, including burrs.
We are going to container garden this year and my kids also want to grow pumpkins also
LOL Mancakes and woman cakes. LOL Neat names! lol
I am glad you're feeling better. :)
I think introducing our kids to their own backyards is a GREAT idea! :) I have been doing that with Alex as we enjoy all of nature from trees, plants, butterflies, caterpillars, birds and squirrels. :)
You are so right when you say that kids don't even know names of plants in their own yard........they don't know the plants or critters in it. :( It's cool hearing Alex call out the type of bird at our feeder or recognize a butterfly flittering about. :)
I am glad that you are feeling better .. I wish we would here, I am soo very tired of beng sick !!
I just love reading your blogs sometimes, I have been keeping notes on some things you do - that I can do also for homeschooling. As soon as I get those papers .. yes sirreeee !!!
I had some rhubarb once...and I killed it. : ( I'd like to get some more and try again.
My DH went out in the back yard yesterday and cut down everything back there, including the raspberry vine...I forgot to remind him it was there! I guess my girls know the names of everything back there now, though. lol Ummm...Grass and daffodils? lol
I was always SO scared of rabies when I was a kid. Growing up in the woods(about a mile from any main road)we had to be on the watch. I haven't talked about it much to my girls, because I'm don't want them to be afraid like I was. I do that for a lot of stuff...Anna is scared enough anyway! I did get some Bach's Rescue Remedy, thinking it might help calm her...have you tried it with your son?
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