Mothers' Day. Went out last night with 8 other gals while M took TRex out to dinner. Kiddo had religious school this morning, then we went out to lunch and then to the nursery to get our plants. And then... many hours in the garden.
In the veggie patch: sugar snaps, brussels spouts, cherry tomatoes, butternut squash, zucchini, cucumbers, dill, rosemary, sage, oregano, and thyme (all the herbs but the dill are holdovers from last year). (ETA: And the garlic. I forget about the garlic.)
In TRex's garden: petunias, marigolds, lobelia. She has sandwort and a dianthus in there, too.
In "my" garden: petunias, marigolds, lobelia, and a purple blooming perennial that I can't remember the name of.
In the rest of the backyard: a bleeding heart, some flowering groundcover that I can't remember the name of. (ETA: and some basil near the mint; trying to prove my theory that the problem I have with basil is just that it gets scorched in the really-extra-full-sun of the veggie patch,)
In the
weed patch garden behind the garage: some periwinkle.
In the front yard we took out the sad-looking holly bush and put in morning glories.
And now we're all tired. The kiddo was a BIG help - there's no way we could have gotten all of that planting done this afternoon without three sets of hands working on it.
Other things. Softball is back! They've had 3 practices and the league parade was yesterday.
It looks like we're going to get really lucky and they're not going to have any games until after dance recital is over (next weekend is crazy... Canisius graduation and tap recital at the same time; Religious School service day Sunday morning and then ballet recital Sunday afternoon).
Oh, and I'm not an aunt again. Yet. We are bordering on full-on babywatch mode (J is due in a week; Miss C was 3 days early.)
