Back to School

I have been going out of my mind this summer with two busy kids.  My house is a mess.  Things are crazy busy.  Jay is building two houses on top of working his usual 40 hours at work.  We have been trying to sneak in a few quick trips which means  SO.MUCH.PACKING/UNPACKING.  Life has just been crazy.

Today is the first day of kindergarten.  A day I have been looking forward to for weeks.  So why is it that now that the day is finally here I am freaking out with anxiety?  I can't believe I am expected to drop my baby off at a school full of strangers for 6 hours a day/5 days a week.  It's just insane.

Yesterday at Meet The Teacher

So today is the first day and I really hated to drop my baby girl off.  I am not sure why this year is so much harder years prior.  Maybe it's the new school?  The old Pre-School/Kindergarten building was closed and both were moved to this school.  Maybe it's the 5 days a week part?  I don't know but I have been sick about it for the past two days.

 

First Day of Kindergarten

Savannah & her friend Blake

(my goddaughter's brother)

In a few weeks I am going to try and get Savannah to start taking the bus.  Two of our neighbor's go on the bus & my niece who lives down the road.  It's going to be a major pain to drive down town twice a day/5 days a week to bring her & pick her up.

So now that will have naptime to myself from now on I am really going to try to be a better blog.ger.  I have big plans for naptime.  I am going to start a new exercise schedule, clean, cook & blog!  Woooo!  This is a definite plus to school.

We got home from Maine on Monday night and are leaving for New York on Friday morning so I am busy with that.  Hope to get into the new routine next week. 

Garden Love

I have been such a slacker when it comes to blogging & I really miss it.  Our life in the summer is super busy & I have been having a really hard time finding a spare moment to put together a post at the end of the day.  Having two kids who are wild and crazy is hard!  My brain in usually fried by the time they are both in bed.

I thought it would do a post to document our garden.  For the past few years we have pretty much only grown tomatoes, peppers & herbs.  We love to grow tomatoes and I stew them to make spaghetti sauce.  I make a few large batches late August/early September and freeze it for the whole year.

This year we dreamed BIG and expanded from two small raised beds to a HUGE 28 x 22 garden (we also kept the small beds for beans & herbs).  We wanted everything to be GMO free, organic & mostly heirloom.  I am so proud that everything has done really well except our broccoli.  I am not really sure what happened because the broccoli was one of the few things we purchased from a local farm.  Mostly everything else we grew from seed.


Tomatoes, green & yellow squash, broccoli, lettuce & onions

Tomatoes, carrots, swiss chard, onions & beets

 

Corn

 

This is Savannah with our first real "harvest"

 



This was tonight's dinner.  

Green beans & tomatoes from our garden.  Summer squash casserole with squash & onion from our garden.  Popover made with eggs from of hens.  Spice rubbed chicken breast from the meat birds that we raised.

 

Our hens

 

 

 

 

I hope to do a post on our chickens at some point.  They are so wonderful & we just love them!  They are our girls.