Category: Home and Yard

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Flower Boxes

I would really love to plant a garden. I’m not really sure if I’d be up for a large garden so I’m contemplating maybe getting a few window boxes around the house.  I could put one at the kitchen window and then maybe some by the bedrooms.  I know my daughter would love to help with a garden.  She is always drawing flowers.

If I gave my daughter her own flower boxes to take care of, it could teach her new responsibilities. We could plant the flowers together and watch them grow.  I bet she would love picking out the flower seeds at the store and filling the boxes with dirt.  I will have her be responsible for watering the flowers every day.  Maybe to help remind her I’ll make her a chart and she can color it in each day she waters the flowers.

Just to add a special touch to her windowbox I’ll hand paint her name on the one by her bedroom window.  I’ll let her pick out the paint colors and stencils.  Her favorite colors are pink and purple.  I’ll bet she picks those colors and also asks me to decorate it with sparkly stars.  I’ll have to take pictures of the boxes when they are all done and the flowers have grown.  I’m excited to see the finished product.

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Cover and Protect

My hubby called from work and asked if I would like to go with him tonight to the hardware store after dinner. Or he could just go on his own after he leaves work tonight before he comes home. I told him that I would rather skip the shopping trip and can just have dinner ready an hour later than usual. But I forgot to ask him what he needed from the hardware store.

I hope he is thinking about painting the two bedrooms. They need a fresh color badly. If so, he will need to get a good dropcloth as well as the paint and brushes. We have to protect the floor from paint splatters. Its much easier to use a good tarp as a preventive measure than it is to scrap little splotches of pain up off the floor – or, worst case, having to refinish the wood floors. That is messy and expensive.

I’ve always been a fan of tarps, thanks to my Dad. Every time my Dad did anything around the house, he included me or my brother so that we would learn. I am so grateful that my dad was there for us and taught us well. He took parenting very seriously, and I hope to give the same benefits of a two parent home to my children.

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Clean up

We have been trying to get the yard cleaned up and all the leaves raked up but, as soon as we make some headway on it we get another storm that blows more leaves from our neighbor’s yard into our freshly raked yard. That is one thing I really dislike about this time of year; the leaves go everywhere and we try to keep ours raked up and we get more leaves that could ever be on our trees. Once we get the last ones up it will be spring and we will not have to worry about the mess anymore.