Order In Chaos

Today is Monday…May 2 2011

Waking up to beautiful sunshine, I’m afraid I didn’t want to do anything else but garden.

Fortunately, my friend called and got us out to the gym.

So we took our kids, ran around a bunch and had a delightful time.

Afterwards, we came back to my house, and she dug around in my garden with me…:)

Daddy fed boys and took them “speedbiking” at lunch time while I went to pick up some more seed trays.

Then the boys were so happy playing in the backyard I just kept digging.

Until…

One boy, who had been gym-running, garden-digging, speedbiking, outside-playing all morning,..

quit.

Absolutely, utterly exhausted:

Yes, asleep. Though I did wonder briefly if he’d succumbed to heat exhaustion after insisting on wearing his winter coat and gloves in wonderfully warm weather 😉

So I left my resident superhero…

…watching over his grass-eating strawberry-mauling brother while I carried Ettin to bed.

(I blame that bib-less casualty on his father, I was out at lunch!)

Not able to garden outside, Giant and I did some more planting inside.

He set up the trays while I nursed a baby:

We planted all manner of fun veggies:

He practiced his writing skills and wrote down labels for me:

After planting, we snuggled on the couch for a few stories:

…and practiced his math by reading the page numbers (no, really, he loves doing this!)

And I felt very blessed as I reflected upon the day, and enjoyed my sweet view: