Day 3201

 Well, it’s not as blisteringly hot here, but everything is covered in aphid sugar poo. Pick your poison, I guess.

Day 3200

 What do you do with a spent backyard volcano?

Day 3199

 When I woke up this morning, I was not expecting that our house would turn into a paper lantern factory.

Tomorrow is volcanos.

Day 3198

Sometimes I think we might be raising little weirdos.

Day 3197

 Destroying mosquito habitats is pretty satisfying. 

Day 3196

The school year is over. Long live the school year.

Day 3195

 We’ve reached the ‘gluing pine cones onto leafs glued to paper’ part of the school year.

Day 3194

 It is not a good time when all the children choose the path of most resistance.

Day 3193

 I can’t say I was expecting to have our lives taken over by Asterix, by Jupiter!

Day 3192

 Fully vaccinated. Will feel more jubilant once the aching stops.

Day 3191

 Got an app to identify flowers for Lizard and mostly have learned how badly we’ve been treating our poor blueberries and how many of our weeds are highly invasive. 

Also got Lizard fascinated by henges.

Day 3190

 Board game afternoons are the best afternoons.

Day 3189

 If you let your daughter paint rocks, you’ll probably end up giving all of the children a wagon ride.

Day 3188

Deal with work explosions, build a robot, back to explosions, go for a walk.

Day 3187

 Things went south.

Day 3186

 We didn’t get a lot of schoolwork done, but we did play in the dirt and look at a bunch of bugs. Job done.

Day 3185

 Où est le crabe?

Day 3184

Finding small rabbits while I am mowing is a habit I would rather not become a pattern. Take note, cats, owls, and mommy rabbits. Not in my yard, please.

Day 3183

 Crossing the property line is pretty great.

Day 3182

 Isolation is over. I’m excited to take the kids outside again and let them run their little legs off.

Day 3181

 How do you train a gleefully non-compliant goblin?

Day 3180

 The problem with climbing mountains on the exercise bike in the basement is that you then have to go up two flights of stairs to go to bed.

Day 3179

 Banana: sometimes a goblin, but always always always ready to look out the window to watch for bunnies.

Day 3178

 The War on Dandelions continues. Can’t wait to see how many fricking zombie weeds are sticking out tomorrow.

Day 3177

 This is the most excited I have ever been about turnips.

Day 3176

 You will never defeat the dandelions, you can only slow their advances.

Day 3175

 Long day, accidental mountain.

Day 3174

Baby steps.

Slow and steady.

Just keep swimming.

Day 3173

Planting the garden in the dark with thoughts of my mom for company

Day 3172

Wee Banana is already getting clever ideas fir manipulating her parents. If I say I have to use the potty, will you take me upstairs to look at bunnies out the window?

And she’s learned more songs to sing instead of going up sleep.