Monday, March 14, 2011

But what will we do?

The children have made the decision not to play sports this spring and Joe and I have made the decision to honor their choice. This will be the first spring in 6 years without baseball and all that goes with. Though I find myself a bit nervous at the prospect of SO much downtime for these "active" children, I don't think it will really be a problem. Connor says he plans to spend a lot of time in the woods. He'll be learning to trap this spring.

I've noticed my children craving freedom, choices, un-structure, lately. It shouldn't surprise me, for I'm the same way.
I'm looking forward to seeing the fruit all this freedom may bring. And if we're wrong and everyone ends up bored and miserable, well, there's always next year. We've been home so much the past several months, and if my children have learned anything this winter, it's been to get along with each other and find useful and creative things to do when there is simply nothing else. After this long winter, spring and summer should be a breeze.

I know I won't be bored. For this is the order I just placed:

Amish Paste Tomato
Big Beef Hybrid Tomato
Cupid Hybrid Tomato
Kentucky Wonder Wax Pole Bean
Cylindra Beet
Blue Curled Vated Kale
Packman Hybrid Broccoli
Sweetness 3 Hybrid Carrot
Graffiti Hybrid Cauliflower
Tango Hybrid Celery
Extra Sweet Sweet Corn
Homemade Pickles Cucumber
Jungs Kaleidoscope Mix
Red Zeppelin Hybrid Onion
Yellow Sweet Spanish Hybrid Onion
Mammoth Melting Sugar Pea
Katrina Garden Pea
Bell Boy Hybrid Pepper
Dills Atlantic Giant Pumpkin
Phantom Pumpkin
Mammoth Island Salsify
Tyee Spinach
Commander Bush Squash
Rumbo Squash
Sunshine Winter Squash
Moon and Stars Watermelon
Jerusalem Artichoke Tubers
Neon Calendula

It will be nice to have extra time in the evenings to work with the children in the garden rather than driving them to practice and games 5 nights a week.

Hip hip for freedom and slow time together.

Now I need to figure out where to plant these goodies. This mama needs more garden beds, for sure.

Happy Spring to you (soon!)

Elizabeth

6 comments:

  1. Good thing you bought a freezer! You're feeding an army with that order. It will be fun getting your hands dirty. May God bless you with a rich crop of children, kids, and veggies.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Sounds great! I just bought all my seeds today and can't wait to get them started! I am building beds versus just digging up the ground this year. Soooo excited!
    Oh! If you find that you are REALLY bored, April and May are killer months around here with 2 girls on separate softball teams and spring field work (which means I do most of the milking)....so you can always come over ;)

    ReplyDelete
  3. Sounds like you're in for a wonderful time! I love that your kids are craving more of an unstructured time...I'd love to have that choice. :)

    ReplyDelete
  4. I have just found your wonderful blog and I think it is so important for children to have their own time with no programs.
    At the moment I live and work in Germany and there it is forbidden to homeschool. I hope some day we all will have more freedom...

    Jolanda

    ReplyDelete
  5. Busy! Lots of seeds and hopefully a big harvest this summer. :O)

    ReplyDelete
  6. Thank you for visiting the farm! We do have much in common, but you are way ahead with your seed order...WOW!!!
    Blessings from the farm~
    Kathy

    ReplyDelete