A week with Betsy Ross

Well, the oldest has a class project this week consisting of a diarama representing Betsy Ross sewing the American Flag and a costume for a "wax museum" thing they are putting on at school later this week. We finished the costume this weekend with loads of help from my mom and did the diarama tonight. It turned out really cute - I'll post pictures later this week. Hubby even made a small wooden table to put the flag on. The oldest was thilled! We're down to the last month of school and not sure any of us are really ready for that yet.

Edited to add this picture:


The wee one is totally off any baby food at all and is loving it so far. I'm glad she's made the switch so easily. Now to get her off the bottle and onto a sippy cup, but that is a battle for another day. I was able to get a cute picture of her for my 365 even though she wasn't wanting to cooperate. We also think she may be getting ready to be potty trained but we're not quite sure she's ready so we're going to wait just a bit yet. Give her time to do it this summer.

The grass seed we put down this weekend hasn't started to sprout yet. I'm really hoping it does. I don't want to keep shelling out for seed every other week. Sometime in the next two weeks we're going to pick up the lumber and put the raised bed in for my herb garden for the summer. I'm really excited about doing this and can't wait for things to start to grow. I'm contemplating digging some of them up and potting them to have over the winter, but we'll have to see about that. So far I'm sure I'm planting chives, dill, english thyme, russian sage, some other type of sage, some garlic or onion chives and some sweet basil. There may be some oregano in a pot nearby but I'm not sold on that. I don't cook with it that often.

Along the other side of the patio we're going to put in another bed, not raised, that will have some lavender. I found a really lovely pink lavender that I've never seen before and want to try. There will be some other plants in there, but I'm not sure what yet. It gets very little sun there and I'm not even sure how well the lavender will do. I'd like to make sure one of the lavender plants is edible because I'd like to make some lavender sugar and also some lavender butter.

I've started sketching out the garden a bit and will try to post those tomorrow.