Spring MUST be near!

This last weekend I got little accomplished in cleaning inside as I had planned, but My Hero and the kids? WOW! They got so much done, as you will soon see. I didn't get before pictures, so you will have to go by your imagination of a wildly overgrown garden box and it's twin. The weeds, I am sure, looked like 1000 year old trees of Lebanon to the worms and ants below. The dirt...there is good soil under there? The garden boxes looked like the kids room, no floor space to speak of and total chaos, overwhelming to say the least. To sum it all up in one word? They looked like....WORK! A LOT of work!

Richard and the kids starting working on them. Our oldest had begun this a couple weeks ago while Richard and I were away, but he soon found it was a job for....more than one super hero!

How about a Super Family! Yup! That's right! I have a SUPER family!

 This one has to stay in one spot and cannot do any labor that required walking or machinery, but the area he cleared out learned its lesson and I don't think will be back to soon!

 Attitude! It's all about the Attitude!

 Be afraid weeds, be VERY afraid!

I AM THAT HERO!

Next hero is one who looks like a normal teenager with the MP3 player implanted into his ear. Most would comment that must be listening to that crazy music of the young people today or question if he had Lady Gaga in his ear. Aside from the fact he is a teenager they couldn't be more wrong! His favorite thing to listen to on his MP3 player is books! He has listened to more classic than I, or most other adults for that matter, have EVER read! If he isn't listening to books then it may be classical music and then praise and worship music.

 His weed pulling expertise is busy at work, enjoying the less challenging chore of picking the weeds from the loosened dirt and putting them into the compost bucket.

 Ah! He is successful! You can try to win weed, but you will lose! 

I have super weed pulling powers!

 Powers they only wish they had!

 A few pointers from His Majesty the Master Weed Destroyer.

 Die Weeds! Fall like ancient towering trees, crashing to the ground.

  Timber!

 Go, Weed Jack! Go!

 Yes, little hero - you too shall get to use such power tools one day soon.

And though you will have to wait an extra year or two for the privilege of using power tools to fight those weeds, it too will one day be yours as well.

This super hero is truly a princess warrior! Stronger than she looks she tackled that job of leveling the soil divinely. Here you can see the determination to win on her face. She was master of her tools.

 And now for Pertinacious Man vs. Barbaric Mantis.

We all know this battle. The struggle to keep the mantis on the straight path and to be sure that every weed is chewed up into unrecognizable little pieces. The sign that the Mantis has had its cake and eaten it too.

Man tamed this mantis and became the Master Weed Destroyer, 

while the mantis was rewarded with a meal it will never forget! 

The job is complete and ready for planting 

when Mr. Frost has migrated farther North for the spring and summer.

It's Been Some Time Now....

Each time I post here it has been quite a while from the last time. This is the place I would like to post about my family. Our life, our children, our schooling, our living. But all too often life gets in the way and time for posting is rare.

I do have to say that I have found that I enjoy posting on wordpress more, but my family posting is here so I will try and continue at least until I figure out how to switch this blog to my other sight.

Now that the pictures of all the kids are FOUR YEARS old! I guess maybe I should put up new ones. So look soon for new pictures of everyone and a new design? Maybe? (that is why I switched all my other blogs to the other site as I found it easier to design my site - if I can't figure it out here I will definitely have to switch this site over too).

Till then I will just say, have a lovely day!
TTFN