Star Flowers and Gardens

Each May I take pictures of the kids in front of these cute little bulb flowers. I call them the star flowers, I dont know their real name. They open in the sun and close at night. There are more kids and less flowers in the pictures as the years go by....

I am just doing our small raised bed garden area this year. But I think it will be a good garden... The helpers have put a fence around it with a real little wooden gate. And it seems to have come with its own little garden baby....

A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words

Sisters reading together. Brothers entranced by the TV.
She's looking at me!

Phrases

Things I don't love to hear:

Oh. It's just you. (When I come in the backdoor instead of Daddy)
I'm telling Mommy! (Please don't)
I'm hunnnggrrryyy.... (closely followed by)
I wont eat that.
and my recent favorite:
Be careful when you go in the bathroom....

And some things that I have wished I didn't have to say:

Please don't wash my contact case in the toilet.
Please don't bounce on your brothers head.
Please don't take all the vegetable markers out of the identical varieties of tomatoes.

T-Shirt I bought today: (for $2 at Freddies)

"Lucky Mom"

....'nuf said.....