A Mother’s Journal

I sure wanted my mulch delivered today, but the tree service got rained out. 

It’s okay, though.  My daughter and I decided that if we can’t plant outside, we’ll plant inside!

I bought a little Jiffy Greenhouse and a packet of shasta daisy seeds. 

We also chose some seeds from a collection that I keep in an old, green McCoy planter.

The seeds are tiny, even next to a sweet little hand.  We planted three seeds into each Peat Pellet.  Fun.

Planting shasta daisy seeds is serious business.  We planted 3 seeds x 72 Peat Pellets, so that’s a lot of potential. 

Thankfully, I had already started supper earlier: a chunky, mostly-homemade spaghetti sauce with lots of bell pepper and onion and mushroom:

Venison Spaghetti Sauce

• 3 lbs ground venison, browned
• 1 large onion cut in chunks
• 1 large bell pepper cut in chunks
• 3 cloves of garlic minced
• 1 jar of whole mushrooms
• 2 jars of Classico 4-cheese pasta sauce
• crushed tomatoes to your preferred thickness and taste
• seasonings such as oregano, thyme, salt, pepper, etc. to your liking

Simmer it all for a couple of hours and serve over Barilla Plus thin spaghetti. 

For dessert, my daughter and I made chocolate chip cookies.  I could have eaten 10, but I only at 3, and they were SMALL!!!

I did swing by Goodwill today on the way to get laundry detergent.  (We’ve been out for two days, so it’s Mt. Laundry at every turn.)  I bought only one thing.  I spent 52 cents.  It was a beautiful Degas print of Dance Class.  It is now on my kitchen cabinet with a bit of sticky-tack.

School Lessons:  Joseph read a lot today (always at least a couple of hours) and wrote a poem today.  He’s been talking about Edgar Allen Poe today.  Oh, he also watched Dances with Wolves as part of our study of early American writing/Native Americans.

Oh, and we have our first worksheet on line.  You’ll see the link at Dragon Speller.  We’ll be adding to this regularly.

Lynn