Man, Blogger and Flickr need to team up so I can just click my photos over! It's such a pain to move them from there to here, and I always say "I'll do it later", but then don't. All the good ones are there, or on Facebook, and I think everyone who reads checks my Facebook anyway. :p

It's been a good week. Our first full week sans Grandma. *sniff* Elyas still woke up this morning asking for her, and was quite displeased when I said she wasn't here ("She NEEDS to get on the airplane. I WANT her to come here NOW. She doesn't want to WALK to our house.) Poor bubby. I still miss her a lot too. I mention often how hard it is on the kids, but I have to admit, sometimes I think it's harder on me! Despite my mother and I have our share of rocky years (I was not a pleasant teenager), we are very close and I miss her dearly. I look forward to when they are settled in Hawaii and we can get to some kind of regular visiting schedule, something like me and the kids going there for the winter, and her and dad coming for the summer. Anyway...

I am loving Iowa in the spring time. The weather is volitle, fast changing, but pleasant. Not like Washington, where June, July rolls around and you are saying "ENOUGH OF THE GREY ALREADY!" We are getting plenty of rain mixed with plenty of sun, and things in the garden are growing fast. Already one of my rugosas has bloomed, the peonies are a couple weeks away from blooms, I've had homegrown radishes, rhubarb, arugula and tatsoi... And so many of my planted things are growing quickly! I'm so excited to be growing so much of my own food. I have sprouting up or actively growing now(besides the above mentioned: tomatoes, strawberries, chard, bush beans, poles beans, snap peas, lettuces, cucumbers, boiler onions, spring onions, kale, beets, carrots, celery, broccoli, brussel sprouts, califlower, okra, basil, onions, and peppers... and many more things waiting to sprout!