These Days

What's happening these days at the Silly Pepper home:

A girl in a purple princess dress is making sure the plants are all well watered and the cats are well loved.

A girl in a blue onesie is working hard on teething those top two canines, standing, and expressing her opinions.

We're slowly beginning to dig out from under the mountain of backlogged projects. Like the cabinet door painting project that I started in November 2009, before I was pregnant with said standing child.

We're enjoying eating the lettuce and herbs that we've grown in our garden, and thoughtfully adding more plants. We can only fit so many things in containers on the porch, and approximately one bazillion new tomato plants came up from seeds in the compost (remember my post about chopping up all those tomatoes last summer?). Vinca and chili peppers and peppermint followed us home from the farmers' market this week to join the melee.

We're adjusting to having Matthew home on evenings and weekends, and Betsy home all day every day. There are now family walks after dinner again, and mid-day trips to the pool. We're trying to figure out family time, couple time, and (gasp) alone time.

We're planning summer trips, especially one to Maine.

I'm pondering what to do with the Etsy shop, how much time I can give it now, and whether to change my focus.

Lots of fun things!