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Watering Nolan

It's Over!

Well, the root canal went fine. The worst part was having to hold my mouth open for an hour. I couldn't close it at all while they were working. Any time I thought about what they were doing to me and get worried, I just thought about there being a lot of people praying for me and that made me feel better. The kids had a great time at grandma's and now I'm still on the pain medication so Paul is supposed to be in charge of dinner. Good thing we have a new Sonic in town. I don't think anyone understands how much I have missed Sonic. It's always been one of the first places I go when I get to Texas. Now I just need a real Tex-Mex restaurant, please. Emily thinks I'm going to get fat now that we have a Sonic. Ok, now I know I'm on pain pills because I'm rambling about drive-thrus instead of posting pictures of the kids. I love my kids so much. I need to post a video of Nolan saying "tickle-tickle". I better go before I ramble too much.

Garlic Tonic

If you want to know what a garlic tonic is, it's an immune booster that's supposed to cure everything from the common cold to cancer. The only thing is that it's pretty nasty to drink, but well worth it for an all natural cure-all. The girls and I made some yesterday. The recipe is:

2 cups each of garlic, white onion, horseradish root, ginger root and habanero chilies.

Peel the horseradish, garlic and ginger and cut everything into one inch pieces. Remove the stems and seeds from the habaneros and don't forget to wear gloves or your hands and everything you touch will feel like it's on fire.

Put all the veggies in a large container pour a gallon of apple cider vinegar on them. Put a lid on it because it's going to stink up your house. Stir the mixture once a day for two weeks.

Then strain off the veggies and keep the liquid in a glass container with a lid. I guess you could save the veggies for your compost pile or just throw them away.

Take 1 tablespoon of the liquid daily, or 2-3 tbs. when you feel a sickness coming on.

There are a few variations to the recipe, but that it the one I used. It should kill just about anything that is ailing you. We also planted in our garden yesterday. We're getting to it pretty late, but we've had a lot going on lately with the fire and school and a million other things. Better late than never. We are really excited about it. Nolan really loves being out in the dirt, but I have to watch out for him throwing it around now that there are seeds in it.

My Little Gardener

She had been working really hard. She said that we need to have pink and purple flowers on the front porch, so that's what we have now. We have vincas on the front porch and white daisies on the back porch and we even planted some bluebonnets because we're Texas girls. Tomorrow, all six of us are going to be out in the vegetable garden now that the frosts are over (we hope).

Second Grade!

Emily has zipped right through the first grade so quickly that we are done! The second grade books were delivered yesterday so she starts second grade today. We celebrated last night by having Aunt Stephanie over for dinner and we had one of Emily's favorite meals, Spaghetti! After dinner Steph and Emily put on a singing show for us with tickets and everything. Every once in a while Lily would burst out in a different song while they were singing. Then we all looked through Emily's new books while we ate lemon bars. We had so much fun that there were some tears when it was time to go to bed.

In other news, I have to have a root canal. I'm in quite a bit of pain so I have to take a prescription pain med just to eat. I think the kids might actually like it because we do the hokey-pokey and all kinds of goofy stuff 'cause I'm pretty goofy right now. My appointment isn't until April 24 so it's going to be a pretty dopey 2 weeks. Oh well. I just keep forgetting where I put stuff when I'm cleaning the house. I'm probably just throwing it all away, which is probably a good thing.

Look At What I Did!

I actually sewed these dresses today all by myself! I've never even tried to sew anything before besides curtains. I had already made the tank top that Emily is wearing 2 years ago, but I thought it would be cute to sew some fabric on the bottom to make it a dress. I told Tonya and Catrina last week that I was going to do it and I did! It was really cheap, too. For example, on Lily's dress the t-shirt was $2.88, the ribbon was $.88 and the fabric was a remnant that the store had on clearance for $2, but I only used half of it. I only spent $4.76 to make that cute dress. Somehow I guess I have to figure in that $200 sewing machine, but that thought takes away from the excitement. I think I'm going to use the rest of the fabric left over from Lily's dress to make a dress for my little sister. My 1 1/2 year old sister, not my 25 year old sister.

Happy Easter!

Nolan is trying to run away from the Easter picture pose.

Cute Kids

Yesterday we were driving back from the dairy where we get our milk, and I stopped at a fast food place to get some food for the kids. After a few minutes I hear Lily say (with heartfelt emotion in her voice):

"Mommy, Tay-Tow Tots are always, always good. Even Jesus loves Tay-Tow Tots."

Recently some of my friends posted things they never thought they should have to say to their kids. All of my thoughts were pretty much the same, but yesterday a new one came out of my mouth:

"NO, Don't put cat food in the dishwasher!!!"

I have to give him the benefit of the doubt because he's only 16 months old. Emily is getting her artwork ready for the fine arts festival and Adam is on spring break so we're getting to spend some extra time with him. It's great that he can hang out with Paul during the day. He just won't get up to leave at 5:30am, so I take him up to the shop later. Speaking of the shop, we are running at full speed. God is still providing. There have been two more major expensive pieces of equipment that we needed this week and didn't know how we were going to buy them. We prayed specifically for them and made a commitment to go without them until we knew what God wanted Paul to do about it. In both cases, Paul has gotten phone calls from people who offered to sell the items to us for much less than they should sell them for and that we can make monthly payments! We are so thankful and so blessed. A child is calling my name right now so I better go save them.