May musings

I'm so glad we are done with sickness. Kael, Ammon and myself escaped it which was nice. Scott ordered all the stuff for his shed and so he will be busy building. He wants to get the garden tilled and ready to plant first and that is a job! Hopefully this weekend we will be able to work on it. This week I have been enjoying the fact that everyone has been healthy. I have been running at the Fitness center trying to get ready for the 5K I am running in June. I'm not much of runner so this has been a good experience to push myself and get out of my comfort zone. I have also been practicing my piano which I have just loved so much. I have been surprised at how much easier the hymns are to play. I guess practicing a little a day really does help! I'm still far away from my goal of playing all the hymns but instead of just being able to play two hymns, now I can play maybe 5 well and I can stumble through a few more. So if I just keep at it, I may reach my goal faster than I thought I could. Anyway, it has been nice that I have been able to do a few extra things like the garden and playing the piano now that Ammon is a little older. It is so nice to be out of survival mode. Ammon has been eating more solids and in just 2 1/2 short months, he will be ready to be weaned and I will have even more freedom. Time flies so fast. I can't believe that school is almost out. I have tried not to schedule too much for the summer so I can concentrate on the garden. I do have the kids signed up for a few things though. Kalli is going to a storybook camp and I have Aidan signed up for a Basketball camp. Kalli and Aidan will be going to swim lessons a little later in the summer and I want to sign Kael up for scout camp. Hopefully I can encourage Kael to get a lot of his scouting done this summer. I bought some workbooks for the kids to do also and I want to encourage them to be reading all summer long. I have been reading some fun books. One book I really enjoyed was The Wednesday Letters by Jason Wright. That was a really good book. I am reading Rebecca of sunnybrook Farm and am enjoying that. I need to just make sure that I don't read too much so that I get all my necessary stuff done first! I get into a book and it is hard to put it down. Well, enough of my ramblings. Hope everyone has a wonderful week!