YA or you?

yesterday walking out of daycare:
pid - mama, i love ya
me - i love you too
pid - no mama, i love YA
me - ok then i love YA too

in other news - had our first official parent teacher conference which went very well - the kid does well those things he should be doing well. he needs better conflict resolution skills, but to paraphrase my mom - i know some adults that could still use better conflict resolution skills.

Bedtime Reading

i think i must have the sweetest little boy in the world... tonight after his bedtime story, the following conversation took place:
pid: ok mama, i'm going to read this book now.
me: we just read a book i'll read that one to you tomorrow
pid: no i'm going to listen to my songs and read it myself and you're going to go downstairs
me: ok but when i tell you it's time to put the book away and turn off the light you need to do that ok?
pid: ok.

--- fifteen minutes later ---

me: ok, it's time to go to bed now
pid: ok, mama!

--- sound of feet padding around and then the light goes out upstairs ---

me: ok now get in the bed and go to sleep
pid: i am in bed, good night!

aaaw....

Chasing Fire - Nora Roberts

this is my first time reading anything by nora roberts. to be honest, it just looked interesting in the list of e-books available at my library so i figured why not.

it focuses (more or less) on a group of fire jumpers in missouri. particular central characters are rowan tripp (experienced fire jumper, daughter of legendary fire jumper), gull (newcomer to the group, former firefighter from california), rowan's father, and various other jumpers on the base.


the story follows the group from training through the majority of the wildfire season including several intense wildfires. this season is unlike others due to various suspicious fires, odd occurances on the jumpers' base and deaths in the local town. it all ends up somewhat intertwined in a you might or might not have expected it sort of way. there's a little bit of romance for those romantics around and a little more sex than i'd want my hypothetical tween-aged daughter to read.


overall, i enjoyed the book, i'd recommend it.

First tomato!

isn't it cute?? can't wait to see more! they should pop out soon since i see a few more flowers on the plant already!

My garden

so i decided this year to test my skills at gardening with a little container garden. my mother has a large plot in her community garden and, i'll go ahead and admit it, i'm a bit jealous of her fresh veggies! i got these planted a little later than planned, early/mid may. the tomato i tried to start from seeds did NOT fare well but on a recent visit, my mom blessed me with a little tomato plant that is doing well so far.

so from top left to bottom right: peppers, carrots, tomato, onions, potato, lettuce, cucumber, spinach. all planted in plastic planters with miracle gro moisture control soil and osmocote fertilizer at planting. the peppers, carrots, lettuce, cucumber and spinach were from seeds; the onions and potato were from sets and the tomato, as mentioned was purchased.

the potato plant has been growing marvelously, but then it started to get a bit yellow - not sure if it is sick and diseased or just malnourished since i neglected to fertilize them again since the initial planting. OOPS! gave them all a bit of miracle gro tomato/vegetable plant fertilizer. we'll see how that turns out in a few days.

diving right in...

wow... this is it... blog post numero uno! whew. that wasn't so tough, i guess. welcome to my blog... i thought for quite some time now about starting a blog but could never settle on a topic that i thought i would write about consistently enough to keep it up. i'm just far too random for that. i think about too many things at once or jump from thought to thought with no warning. so i figured i'd just let my blog do that as well. it will be what it will be. i'm sure there will be topics that come up frequently (my family, food, rants about bad drivers) but it is more or less, as entitled, my train of thought at any given point. comments welcome!