Hiatus

I have been enjoying my hiatus from the internet since we moved the computer to the basement and refinished the upstairs office/third bedroom into a room for Sweet Pea as a birthday present in May.  The room looks great, but I rarely get online anymore because of it.  Life is keeping me pretty busy instead, though.

We’re having a cool summer so far- great for us, bad for my garden.  Everything came up nice and green and tall because of all the rain, but now everything is waiting for hot days and nights to ripen.  I have tons of tiny green tomatoes hanging on vines, desperate for a heat wave to turn them into delicious red juicy tomato sandwiches.  Hopefully soon.

Here is a cake I made for Canada Day.  I like how it turned out- and it tasted fantastic.  I got the recipe from Pioneer Woman’s site.

I picked the strawberries myself on rainy afternoon at a local farm.  The best strawberries I have ever eaten.  I also put up five gallon sized bags of them in the freezer for the winter.  So now all us winter birthdays will get our strawberry birthday cakes.  The boys are thrilled.

Bud is playing t-ball this summer and really enjoying it after a rocky start.  The entire first practice he cried and didn’t want to participate.  I know he was really overwhelmed.  After a month of practices and two games, though, he is an expert and loves to go.   Last game he played catcher, which he really enjoyed.

Hockey Guy took a week off from work and we had a “stay-cation”.  Didn’t go anywhere- just enjoyed a week at home together with the kids.  It was very nice and we got a lot done.

We’ve got a lot of stuff coming up soon- hopefully putting up more food from the gardens and local farms, some real vacations planned, and getting ready to start our next round of school in September.

That’s about it from the Great White North.  Eventually I will start updating more regularly again. 

~ by Krista on July 12, 2009.