Garden

Today I harvested 5 heads of broccoli. They were very large heads and made 12 packages. My cauliflower is as much of a failure as my broccoli was a success. Not one single head yet! The corn made it's appearance over the weekend, Allan and I planted the watermelon yesterday, I hope to get the okra out tomorrow.

The semester is over and the campus is strangely quiet. Philip is still involved in assessment week but my summer break has officially started. This week started with a bang and I'm not sure that "break" is the right word.

For those of you who know my mother, please keep her in your prayers. She has been hospitalized (2nd time since May 23rd) again. This time with a hematoma in her iliac muscle. It looks like she will be there for awhile.

Sleepless

I'm having another one of those insomnia spells that will bring a mother of toddlers to tears! It's 4:38 and not a wink yet. Two and half hours and my day will start with a bang. I'm feeling okay now but by the time my company comes this evening for supper I'll be at less than my best I'm afraid. Perhaps while Allan is at Children's Church (we're in campmeeting) and Daniel is taking his nap I can grab a few winks.

My parents came in from PA last week for Daniel's dedication. We had fun and the boys miss Grandma and Pappy. Here are a few pictures. I also did a graduation cake but I'll save that picture to add to the pictures of the three cakes that I have to do for this weekend.

Busy Week

I tried my hand at making a "diaper cake" today for a baby shower I'm attending. It turned out kinda cute! The other pictures were taken on Sunday at my in-law's home.

Allan and Daniel's Pictures from JCPenney

Allan had his 3 year pictures and Daniel his 6 month pictures taken at JCPenney. If you would like to view them go to https://www.smilesbywire.com/home.asp?AC=LTPP0538108075JCP and type in my name, Marianne Brown.

Snakes, Scratches, and Worms

Sunday I was carrying Daniel up to the garden to look things over when something jumped at the side of my foot. It was a 1 1/2 foot garden snake. I now have officially seen more snakes in Cincinnati than all of my years growing up on the farm.

The boys had their pictures taken yesterday and did so beautifully. The photographer gave Allan a gift certificate for a free pretzel from Auntie Ann's. He very much enjoyed and ate all of his cinnamon and sugar pretzel. I'll post the link to their pictures when it becomes available.

Thankfully the pictures were yesterday at 11:30. For at 5:00 he fell off of a brick wall at his Pop-pop's house and got a fat lip and two abrasions below his nose. At 12:00 today he fell down the cement stairs in front of our house and received a goose-egg on his forehead for his effort. It was about 5:00 this evening that he came running into his room to see his brother, tripped and wacked the bridge of his nose on a bookcase shelf. He is quite a site!

The picture of Allan with his lawnmower needs an explanation: He has started collecting tent worms and putting them where the gas belongs. I heard him tell them last night when I called him in to get ready for bed, "You stay in bed worms, all right?" They stayed - they also died so he put a new stash in there today. There are some things this mommy doesn't get involved in I can assure you!

Allan is getting all excited about his Grandma and Pappy Slagenweit coming for a visit. Tonight I told him that they will be here in 11 more days. His reply was, "That's nifty! I have an idea. Let's tell Pappy that Mr. Lum says he has to come to our house right away!" Mr. Lum is his hero and if he wants to do something that he thinks we won't allow he'll always tack onto the request, "Mr. Lum said that I could!" or "Mr. Lum said I could not do that!"