Today I spent all day gardening. Planting tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkins, butternut squash, sunflowers, pole beans, lettuce, and a few flower seeds. This is in addition to the existing peas, carrots, beets, and radishes that are coming up, and some previously planted wildflower seeds that we are waiting for.
I am so excited to finally have a space where so much can grow!
Maren and Linden have both been taking piano lessons this year. Yesterday was their piano festival, where they played songs from memory and an adjudicator took notes and rated them on various things. They will get their notes at their next piano lessons, but really that was not the point of participating. They had the chance to perform in a great big space on a great piano, which was special in itself.
They did great!
Then today was the Corvallis Spring Roll, a bike event just for kids. Maren and Linden got race bibs with numbers, and participated in a great big kids ride around our local park and neighborhood, just a few blocks from our house. It was lots of fun 😊
Since my last blog post, my kiddos have made me proud. Maren had her first school concert of the year. Unfortunately there was a kid who stood right in front of her, blocking her the whole time, but you can sort of make out parts of her in this video – she is the one in the pink sweatshirt on the far left:
Linden spent so much time practicing and practicing, trying to learn to ride her bike:
And then finally actually biking:
So proud of my kids 😊
Happy Mother’s Day!
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