It's time...

~Time to think about what books we'll need for next year.  I am not a curriculum junkie and am definately not the type to devour the catalogues when they arrive.  I stick to one simple catalogue and even then it is a chore for me to get through it. And at this point I'm just not ready to think about next school year...I'm still trying to find my way through this one.  Nevertheless, with the convention coming up this weekend, and the free shipping on material ordered there, I really must produce a list.  Every year my list has three sections: what we need, what I might like and some extras that the kids might enjoy.  Mostly only the needed items make the final cut, with a few wholesome novels thrown in.

With no baby to take along this year, we are planning to be at the convention for both days.  Justine and Allison are going, too, for the first time.  It should be fun.

~Time to get the income tax forms filled out and in the mail.  With QuickTax this should be a simple process but I'm a dunce when it comes to these things (stop nodding your head so emphatically, Cindy ;) and always manage to bungle things up and it becomes an ordeal.  But I think it's pretty much wrapped up now. 

~Time to plant some seeds in the garden.  Getting some planted in April is a first for us.  We usually just barely get it done by the 'deadline' of the May long weekend.  I just got some early stuff in...peas, spinach, lettuce (is lettuce supposed to be in this early?  I didn't even check. Duh.) and radishes.

If I was a good homeschooling mom I would have had the kids out there with me, but I must not be because I didn't. ;)  Only this girl, and she wasn't much help...

Of course, she probably would have been happy to get right in there, only she has a mean mom who kept her strapped in.

And while we're on the topic of planting, this is what Gerald was busy with when the kids and I came home yesterday... 

My first thought was to wonder where he picked up the free flowers.  You see, he used to work in landscaping and whenever they had ordered too many flowers or for some reason had rejected plants he would bring them home.  But he bought these just because he thought I would like them.  Awww, isn't that sweet?  :)

~Time for the trilliums to bloom.   I was so happy to see them the first spring we were here!  When I was a kid we would sometimes go for a drive just to see these sweet flowers. 

~Time to go do the mending, the last item on my to-do list for today.