The weekend

Four things i was grateful for this weekend:

* Sean came home again (was starting to get a little worried he wouldnt)
*Great company - Emmas birthday party was the coolest. Good adult conversation, while the kids played spotlight outside, just like the parties i loved going to with mum and dad when i was a kid! So good knowing they are safe and you can relax... best thing was it started at 3pm so we didnt feel ripped off when we were home by 9 heehee
*Watching Ishy work the room like a pro, at two different parties, confident and secure enough to not even care if i was still in the room, or even the same house. She's an old soul, she knows how the party scene works. Talk about charisma! I dont think im going to have to worry over this one so much...
*Sunday morning sleep ins, actually just sundays on the whole. We dropped the kids at Nan and Pop's and spent a rainy day just wandering round town, Sean even held my hand a bit, and then a very cool lunch. We lounged over thai curries and a bottle of wine, sitting under a heater and dreamed for a couple of hours, about the future, dream businesses and business dreams... was very nice.

worries

I am very worried that i am going to have nowhere near enough in bloom come summer to make one bouquet let alone 10, and i'll definately be pushing it to have anything much ready for the wedding. It is very frustrating, being such a novice i just dont really have a clue. I had thought i was well and plenty stocked and completely on track, but i read the other day that most perrenials dont start producing well until their third year!! Wassup with that? At least if i ordered from Parva i'd get one year up on that time, but as we know, there is no money for plants... check out my raggedy june offerings:You can see our new tyre swing in the background, Sonny loves it but he need someone to push him and until my stomach heels i'm off the job. And then theres the rain... but he loved his party yesterday and in my tottally humble and un-biased opinion, he was the best dressed pirate on the ship.
He's so handsome.

Misty day, blue borage

It is so warm today i dont even have a jersey on. It rained all day yesterday and last night and is just very misty today - i can hear my garden sighing in delight. The blue borage has its first flower and Sonny is so excited! He claims anything with blue flowers as his own, and i am hoping to entice him into eating salad this spring by scattering this precious blue stars through the lettuce leaves. Apparently they taste like cucumber, i am yet to find out for myself.

We have been keeping our fire cranking, so nice for stories and finger games. I found a cool book called "Heaven on Earth" which i strive to create for my family especially its young children, this book contains many secrets and whispers to spur me on in my efforts, no matter how jaded i become by the enormity of the task. It also helps to have glimpses such as this of how it could indeed be possible...

Parva plants

I did a silly thing this morning, i got out the Parva Plants catalogue to see if the had scabiosa and what kinds, just out of curiosity what mine might end up looking like when the have grown-up. Now i am pining for all the beautiful plants i will not be buying anytime soon... The thing is, it is not really the time to be planting anything new, our ground is oft frozen solid in these frosty mornings and hail is still hanging around the outskirts, i feel it. Such was the state of my garden last month...

That is not snow, it doesnt actually snow here believe it or not, that is hail. There was so much that some adventurous types gleefully set about snowboarding in the streets, as they were temporarily unfit for driving on. Some of my plants survived, more than i would have expected, it was quite kind and gentle, a smothering sort of hail. Sonny thought it was great but did not appreciate how unusual the sheer volume of it was, i think he will always remember it though. This is a cold bastardish winter even in its infancy. Maybe by spring the finances will have swung, would love some plants for my birthday in July.

What i am grateful for today *my lovely boy is so cheerful in the face of it all. Does he genuinely remain blissfully aware of all adversity? I hope so.

*Ishta is so spunky. We must endeavor to preserve her spunk.

*Sean is a gorgeous man. I must endeavor to enhance his gorgeousness. Focus is required.

*Despite the season, the lovely sunny aspect of our casa, and the hope and faith that spiring will be here soon and we'll be back out in the garden... with the flowers.

Dont i make beautiful children

I love flowers

and money xx