Wednesday Hodgepodge
2. What's put a spring in your step lately? Well, We have been working on making our new side flower bed look nice and that makes me excited. Warmer days put a spring in my step. Yesterday (Tuesday) was in the mid 70's and absolutely wonderful.
3. When you were a kid, what was the best snack to find in your lunchbox? I have no idea! I don't remember. If you didn't do the lunchbox thing, tell us what was your favorite after school snack. I don't remember that either. I know when I was older, if I came home and my mom had made some homemade rolls, I loved eating one of those. I always loved to have some macaroni and cheese with a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich...but was that a snack or a lunch, I have no idea. My memories of childhood aren't very good. Both my parents have passed away so I can't ask them.
4. In what area of your life are you planting seeds? I would say I'm planting seeds in my grandkids and helping water the seeds my daughter and son in law have been planting. I'm working on planting seeds of self discipline and of creativity. I'm trying to plant seeds of taking time to relax and just enjoy moments, to find new rhythms in daily life.
5. Why do you live where you do? I have lived in Washington since I was in the 4th grade. I'm now 56. We moved here from Ohio because my dad took a job with Boeing and it was a way for our family to have a fresh start (my parents were having a hard time in their marriage). My moms brother and family lived here. I now live 2 1/2 hours from where I grew up where my husband grew up. We moved here after we were married. I love living where we live. Would you consider living somewhere else? I don't have a deep desire to move, however, I'm not completely closed off to the idea. Why or why not? I do love the PNW and it's stunning scenery (though not a fan of its politics). Our daughters are here, and my in-laws live in the same town, just down the road. There have been times I've thought it would be fun to live in another state or a different town, times I think it would be fun to live somewhere that I could walk everywhere (but I really don't want to live in a city). I love looking at FB pages that show homes for sale in other states, especially old homes and wonder what it would be like to move there. Sometimes I even google the towns to see what they're like.
A few years ago my hubby and were in New Hampshire and there was a cute coffee shop and bookstore for sale...we kind of day dreamed about what it would be like to buy it and move. Could we do it? I don't know.
6. Insert your own random thought here. I've spent quite a bit of time the last few days outside planting some things in an area we prepared. I also planted some strawberries and herbs in a stacked garden/tower garden..whatever they're called.
We wanted a combination of things that will stay green all year and some flowering plants...I need to fill in space, but we've got a good start. I pulled the light part off of the solar lights and put them away since I don't know if it'll get windy.
I enjoyed your answers especially how you worded number 4- so well written- both the sentiment and the wording. I am exactly like you with regard to my house- I don't want it to look awful so I clean it but. My husband wishes I were more of a neat freak, haha! That was a long move from Ohio to the PNW! You definitely moved somewhere more picturesque :).
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way about my almost 8-year old grandson. He's so interesting. And interested too, in so many things. Reading the HP today has me itching to plant some flowers. We mostly just do pots but I enjoy them and they're easy to maintain in the heat here. We don't have a lot of flower garden space, but our lot has a lot of tall trees and plants, some flowering so it's not bare. I'd love to live where I could walk everywhere but there are some negatives that come with that as you say. It would have to be small charming town as opposed to big city. Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteMy fav snack might be the peanut butter with a Hershey kiss cookies my mom made! Yum! š ~Carol @ ReadingLadies
ReplyDeleteI'm doing almost the same things as you, Kirstin. I didn't homeschool my grandkids, but we see them several times a week and do a lot of things with them. My older granddaughter is 7 1/2 (September baby), and my younger one just turned five. I see that you stopped by my blog.
ReplyDeleteI planted some sunflower and zinnia sseds on March 16 and some just sprouted. I planted some strawberries last year and they started to come back. I think I'll plant a few more strawberry plants. The raspberries are growing crazy already. My son-in-law said leave them alone for now and trim them back to keep to strong ones later.
I finished school at Seattle Pacific in 1980 and moved to Los Angeles for a few years, then to Orange County 34 years ago. So we lived in the same house for 32 years before moving to Portland, Oregon. We moved only to be close to the family. I can't imagine moving away from the family.
It was 71 degrees today, sunny yesterday and today until the afternoon then started to rain. I hope it won't rain the next few days to make it easy for me to work in the garden. It'll be hot as soon as it stops raining.
I always loved PB&J sandwiches as well as mac&cheese - still love those, if I'm honest! Every now and again I'll go down a rabbit hole of looking at all those old houses - the FB page is For the Love of Old Houses or something like that - and wishing we could pick up and move to one of those vintage homes that are such a great bargain. Maybe when we retire and are ready to move we'll get lucky with a sweet older house like that. Hope you stay safe during all the potential weather events in your area! Happy Spring!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, the weather does look a little crazy with you. We had hailstones a couple of weeks ago but they were not as big as tennis balls. Eek!
ReplyDeleteHow lovely that you can inspire and help your grandkids grow.
Always good to spend time with grandchildren and if you can plant good seeds in them all the better. I hope you didn't get too much bad weather.
ReplyDeleteNew Hampshire is a lot like your weather, smiles. Although, they do get a lot of snow, smiles. Thank you for sharing your life, planting seeds is a good thing, wink. Wishing you a beautiful Sunday.
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