Gnomes and frogs and beetles and bugs...
All that great stuff gardens are made of!

After making my personal terracotta gardener to feed the squirrels and birds, I started painting rocks... for the garden, for the garden-themed-Bunco gifts, for teacher-appreciation-week gifts.

The older girls even found a couple big rocks to paint. Pretty cute!

B#1's...

and B#2's

I'm done with rocks for now, so until another burst of inspiration hits, I'll stay busy trying to finish up the kiddos' teachers gifts for the end of the school year.

Blessing #4 had her last day of class for the year this past Friday, so I had to hurrily get her apple painted and ready for her to take to class. While working on hers, I did B#3's. B#s 1&2 want wind chimes for their teacher gifts, so I am in the process of assembling those. I am all about cheap terracotta pots for gifts. Cute, fun, and inexpensive.

Some kind of stomach bug hit the house... or more specifically, hit me, on Friday and Saturday. So now I'm running disaster relief. It's amazing what six kids can do with just a couple days of a couch-ridden moma.

There's that, and there's also the pile of jackets and coats at the front door. Now that it's getting hot, the monkey bus was emptied of all the winter accessories stuffed into every nook and cranny.

The pile is truly overwhelming. I have no idea where I'm going to store all those very essential, very necessary, very used coats and jackets.

Another tote for the garage, I suppose.

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3rd grade concert

Blessing #1 had her third-grade concert last night. For the last couple months, they’ve been learning to play the recorder in music class. She is doing really well with it and is having a lot of fun.

So, of course, this proud moma took the video camera to capture all the excitement. I cut out most of the songs and left you just with a blip of the concert, a fipple-flute rendition of Mary Had a Little Lamb.

If I must say so myself, I captured an absolutely stunning video.

Maybe next year they’ll have the students stand for the concert so their little grade-schooler bodies aren’t hidden behind the stands.

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