Trip To The Lavender Farm
I have been so busy the past two days. Yesterday I held preschool class at my house (as part of the preschool coop that I am participating in) AND I went to a House Party sponsored by Ball, the canning company. Today I took the boys on a trip to a local lavender farm where we picked bunches of the stuff, did crafts and had a picnic lunch. This evening I also went to knit and gab, the first one I have been to in over two months. Usually I get so stressed out by keeping myself this busy, but I seem to holding together pretty well, even considering that we were going almost nonstop every day last week. At least we have tomorrow off, and Caitlin is coming to visit with her dogger, Brody, and her good friend Chandler is tagging along as well. They will get here on Friday and should be here for about a week, so that’s cool!
Anyway, I’m so jazzed about everything that has been going on the past two days. Preschool is starting to go really really well. We started doing that back in March and had a lot of trial and error runs, but now the kids seem to be getting used to the routine. We were even able to bump up the number of preschool days from meeting once a week to twice a week. We have been going through the alphabet and are just getting to the letter G. I had the letter E, so we focused on elephants since we have so many around the house from Trent’s past obsession with them. That seemed to go over really well with the kids.
The canning party last night was so AWESOME! I went without the kids, which was so totally energizing. I have been really in need of getting away from the kids and my daily routine for quite a while and spending time with other Mom’s last night really seemed to help. We made salsa and peach jelly and played Trivial Pursuit. I discovered that I am horrible at that game. On the drive to that party and back I had the windows to the car all rolled down and I was BLASTING Nine Inch Nails on my car stereo. I felt horrible when I checked my phone and discovered that Garrick had texted me an hour prior saying that Hunter needed me. Of course by the time I got back home Hunter was passed out.
Good thing, too, since we had to get up early to go to the lavender farm this morning. That was such a lovely experience. The farm we went to to is Seven Oaks Lavender Farm. As soon as I got out of the car I could smell the lavender plants. The boys had a really wonderful time since we went with the Joy Troupe and a couple other groups, so there were a lot of children running around. The farm also has a great play house for the kids to use while Moms are out in the field picking the lavender or making a craft. I tried to take a bunch of pictures, but they are mostly of Trent since Hunter spent a good chunk of the time on my back. It was so nice being on a farm and not worrying too much about where Trent was and what he was doing. I made a sachet with him, and I wanted to make a Lavender wreath but that craft was too involved for me to concentrate on with both of the kids. I picked up some pet spray for Icesis’ beds since they are all so stinky and I also got a recipe sheet and culinary lavender to cook with. I was very impressed with the farm, I wish I could do something like that… Maybe someday! Check out this YouTube video about the farm, it’s cool stuff:
Since I had all that fresh lavender, I decided to bring one of the bunches I picke with me to Knit and Gab to pass out to everyone. It was great to see all the Knit and Gabbers. It was a full house, too! Well, anyway, look for pics to come of the boys at the lavender farm, and even a few shots that Trent took.
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