Syd's First "Big" Catch

A short video of Miss Sydney and her first adventure in fishing. Aquaculture the only way to go.

Cacti!!! Is that how you spell cactus?

The above question was posed to me by Miss Syd. No sweetie the word cacti is plural for more than one cactus. Mom that's just weird.

We have a new book, used from the library for only $1, that the girls love it's called "Cacti and Succulents." Pictures, drawings and latin names all piled together into a book of happiness. Sydney and I bought this cactus last week at Bensell's Greenhouse. Today we were very excited to discover the new growth right on the tip of the cactus. Okay, of course it's on the tip. Really Susan, don't you know your meristematic tissues? But if you look really close you will see that there are four fingers popping out of the tip of the plant. Can't tell that she loves her plant, can you?

It's been a while....

If you haven't spoken to me recently I've been a little..... well, busy this year. My gift to myself, restoring a small piece of my sanity, keeping my blog. The Rapplings and I are always having adventures. When I don't record my days I forget all of the hilarious parts and focus on the smallish things that go wrong. So here's to keeping an accurate record of what goes wrong and right over the next many days.
This is a completely edited, for time and sanity, list of things that happened since I last posted in May.
I asked John for a dissolution.
Took the girls camping on my own.
Came home to CSB interviews.
Extreme home makeover on the girls rooms....thanks to all of my amazing friends and parents.
Found a job.
Started said job, with Americorps, serving at ToledoGROWs.
Started 13 credit hours
Received a dissolution.
Completed fall semester and did well.
Spent most of December with sick children and then a very sick self.
Nope I won't discuss the details. Does it really matter? What matters, is now. So on with the show....