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| love these boys! |
It amazes me how much there is still for me to learn. Thinking about the last few days just fills me with excitement. There is new stuff to discover every day, even though I am a homemaker and a mom. :)
I was in the mood for something chocolate, so I decided to try chocolate pudding. Who knew that it's actually one of the most simple foods on the earth? It was divine as well. I love learning how to cook stuff like that from scratch. It often tastes better and is much cheaper! A box of pudding at the store = 65 cents plus the cost of milk. Homemade = 25 cents (already including milk). Yum! The more I do it, the more I love to make things from scratch. I hope that this summer I'm successful in growing some veggies. It can be tough with such a short growing season.
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| Valentine's stash |
I've learned that I actually LOVE Valentine's Day. It's taken me a few years, but I think it gets better each time. James is just amazing. I never get tired of flowers (even though I manage to kill the potted ones), candy, and the endless service he does for me each day. I don't think that what I do for him even comes close. He's a natural at making me feel loved every day of the year. I am trying to learn from his example.
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| Mr. Flexible |
James really felt that we should go to the temple yesterday, so we did. It was an amazing experience, and I think I learned more yesterday than I have all the other times put together! I don't know what made the difference. I wish I could write it all down! Hopefully, I will remember when I go back next time. It's funny how easy it is (physically) to go to the temple when it's so close, yet it's still so hard. It's just too easy to say that we can go later, and then it doesn't happen. Needless to say, I am
so grateful for James's inspiration to go. It was an enlightening experience.
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| roses I can't kill (as quickly) |
I realize a little more each day how quickly babies learn. It's fun to see Joseph exploring his environment in any way possible. Of course, that usually involves sticking things in his mouth, but it's also fun to watch him shake things, drop them to hear what they sound like, and just stare things down. :) I love that goofy little boy. As I speak, he's beating his hands on the front of a book just to hear the sound. The last half hour was spent shaking my car keys and getting himself all tangled up in my purse strap. I hope that he always loves learning this much. I can't wait to see what happens when all the stuff I'm trying to convey starts to click and he develops his own testimony. I can't think of anything more exciting that I'll see in the future.
Little Joseph's smile in that top picture is absolutely cherubic!!!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, if you want tips on care for potted mini roses, I have tons! I have successfully kept 2 of them alive about a year longer than they are "supposed" to last!
All I know so far is to water them every other day! Do tell!
ReplyDeleteOk, here are my tips:
ReplyDelete1. Watering - in my experience these plants don't like to get too much water, so every other day is a good idea. Every now and then I would let mine go for about 4 days between waterings, which they seemed to like.
2. Pruning - if you let dead leaves/flowers stay on the plant, the plant will keep directing energy into them, which stunts the growth of the rest of it and will eventually kill it. So every now and then grab a pair of scissors and cut off everything dead.
3. Watch for things that look like cobwebs. I don't know why, but the mini roses seem kind of prone to spider mites. They start getting cobwebby-looking things on them, and then little black dots on the leaves. Spider mites were the death of my first mini rose, but I learned later that they are easy to kill if you just get a spray bottle of plain water and spritz the whole plant every day. Sure enough, I started seeing some after I'd had my second one for awhile, and I did the spray bottle and it got rid of them pretty quickly.
4. Light - they like a lot of filtered light. I've had really good luck either keeping mine on my windowsill or on a table or something that gets pretty direct light from the window. They don't do as well when placed far away from the window.
Hope that helps! I love mini roses... I am going to get a new one once my gnats are all gone! (I am afraid to do potted plants with them still in the house....)