Easter Eggs

This Idea Came From: Third annual Family Easter Egg Decorating was a huge success. This must be done with the entire family present at our house.

Our Experience: Every year we set our sights on darker, deeper color. But the rule is we have to use egg dyes from the box. So, this year we had three dye pills per bowl and 1 1/2 tbls of vinegar. We skipped water. Then added more vinegar. I think we actually had success. This is strangely too much fun for we adults and there are never enough eggs.

The Lesson: Good clean fun.

Sowing Seeds

This Idea Came From: The desire to grow our own garden just like all our grampas and grammas.

Our Experience: Spring has arrived and we simply do not stay in the house when the sun is shining. It is a crime to not enjoy this time of year. We ate our breakfast- because every farmer needs her sustenance- then we got dressed in our dirty digs and out the back door we went with our seed packets. Emma was a great listener. I used her shovel and she used my shovel.. we had out gardening gloves and saved starter flats to count out seeds into the dirt. This was very exciting! Fill the flats with dirt, poke a hole with a finger, drop a seed or two in each compartment and pat, pat, pat. Of course the watering will be hers to do everyday. We will be using her child sized watering can and it will be so exciting to see the seeds come out of the dirt. We have the Seedlings in a sunny window where Emma checks them quite regularly to see if anything has happened. Oh boy.... this could be a long week!

The Lesson: Reading directions, using tools, and plenty of patience... does a garden good. Plant something with your cutie today!