Simple pleasures

Gosh, I haven't been here for a little while. I've been busy trying to get some sort of an editorial scheduled (sounds very professional, doesn't it?) going for Journeyer's Chronicles and doing committee work.

So over the last week or so, I've been smiling a lot about the kids. They are all so different, with their own little idiosyncrasies.

• DS (7) has developed an obsession for football that sees him playing, watching or reading about it at almost every opportunity.
• DD (5) is really coming out of her shell at kinder and is participating in show and tell now - a great step forward.
• DD (3) has been spending a lot of time at kinder with me while I take care of my committee duties. She has absolutely NO problems with her self-confidence. She is making friends and entertaining the teachers with her stories and antics.

DH finished the vegie garden today and we have planted our first batch of vegies. It will be interesting to see how they come along.

Vegie gardens

We received our latest Diggers Club catalogue during the week. Everyone in the family has been pouring over it, choosing which seeds we should buy for our soon to be made (this weekend) vegie garden. All the vegies look so yummy and surprisingly, the catalogue indicates that most of them will grow here. We'll have to wait and see.

Peas!

Tonight we picked our first peas from our little container vegie garden and ate them for dinner. Miss 5 was very excited and did the shelling. We didn't get very many each by the time they were split up between the five of us. But they were delicious, even more so being our first homegrown vegies.

Roses

I pruned our roses today. It is probably a little late for rose pruning, but that one of the reasons they're great plants. They'll pretty much take whatever you do (or don't do) to them and still give you a bunch of lovely blooms come spring.

I'd forgotten how much I enjoy pruning roses. There's something about it that I find very calming and relaxing (apart from one nasty incident with some thorns). Our roses are now looking very structured and ready for their spring burst of growth.