Life Can Get So Crazy

I know I have been totally MIA.. With five kids, two of them teenagers in school sports, a full time job, etc. etc. the time just gets away.. I did however get to go home to Idaho for the funeral of my beloved Uncle Dave. While I was there I had the opportunity to shovel and snowblow. I have not done that for decades, literally. Living in Georgia, you really forget how cold a Zone 4 can get, especially when you are used to living in a Zone 7b. The Daffodils are starting to peek out of the ground and so are the hyacinths. That gets me excited to see spring, along with all the seed and plant catalog's arriving in the mail. I now leave you with some of the snow photos, photo with my sisters (we don't look a thing alike), and my oldest two boys who are 14 and almost 13. (to really understand how tall they are I am five foot ten inches)...

Family Reunion in Idaho

Grandpa and Grandma had three sons. Those three sons had 17 kids combined. Look what the seventeen kids did.. Had lots of their own.
Can you believe one couple and all of their posterity?..

It really is mind blowing.

It also reminds us that what we do in our life can and will affect our own posterity.

Seed Planting Day (first of many to come)

We commenced our first of many seed planting days. We had a family meeting and talked about the garden we want to have as a family, not just moms flowers and stuff. It is going to be an undertaking with railroad ties, lots of mulch and sand and top soil, but it will be worth it.. We put the peat pots with seeds in the teenager's room. Where it is warm, no direct sunshine and NO Visitors allowed. Some may wonder "who would want to go into a teenage boy's room that plays sports?" Sometimes it just has to be done, and we hope the seedlings don't wilt. ;)