Posted on March 15th, 2012 in Baltimore Craft, blog, family, homeschool, Lana Bella by jenni
Woo Hoo this is the last monthly recap post tomorrow I’ll have just a regular concise post for you aren’t you excited? 
Early in the month I decided to restock our freezer with pancakes. What started as a couple batches of pancakes turned into making 125 pancakes 3 at a time in a pan on the stove I know crazy right? I started with plain, then was asked if I’d make apple, then banana nut, then I went crazy and also made cranberry orange, lemon blueberry and a savory tomato, basil & mozzarella that we had for dinner.
Jack received this new friend also named Jack from the amazing danamarie you can check out her work in both her greenstarstudio and mightMIGHT shops.
We went on a shopping trip to get some new clothes and Rory said he needed these sunglasses.
We played in the rain and painted.
Lexi got a guitar after so many months waiting. Remember this?
After the insanity of making all those pancakes on a pan I splurged and bought a griddle and waffle iron so we tested them out with strawberries and fresh whipped cream and dinner outside under the moon on the patio.
We had some great family time all together again with the kids really enjoying the pool.
Rory and Finn helped me plant a teeny garden late in the season for Miami but hey better late than never right?
Rory and I went shopping and started gathering supplies for his Rainbow Spectacular Birthday party.
We also got an Xbox and I have really enjoyed watching the kids play Just Dance! By the smiles on their faces I think they like it too!
Posted on May 11th, 2010 in blog, family, Lana Bella by jenni
Woke up EXTREMELY sore from the windfest and tent holding the pervious say at Squidfire’s Art Mart, but still I wanted to go to the JFX Farmer’s Market. So even though it was only 8am I had a cup of coffee (ok I had 2) and started sending kids off to get dressed. It was cold yet bustling all those plants wanting to come home with me. Instead we got some greens, asparagus and strawberries because they were so yummy and ripe smelling.
Afterwards we headed to Lowes to finish getting rocks and dirt for the raised beds Steve and the kids had built me a few weeks earlier.
So a shopping cart and contractor’s cart later home we head. After a few hours of work where I over worked already sore muscles and this is what I ended up with. 
Potato bins to the left, the raised bed, and sweet potato and garlic to the right with some marigolds tossed in to hopefully protect everything.
Then on the patio table we never seem to use I have some herbs and my tea cup planter full of Red Clover and Dandelions.
My favorite part of the day was sitting with the kids and planting their seeds in their Sesame Street planters.
Jack planted Bert & Ernie Peppers, Lexi planted Oscar the Grouch Green Beans, Finn some Elmo Tomatoes and Rory the pink Abby Cadabby Pumpkins.
Steve even put some wire on the bottom of the compost bin and got that set up for me too. I’m so excited about our little garden in the city this year!
We even had our first harvest of greens for a salad to add to dinner.
Posted on May 11th, 2010 in blog, family, Lana Bella by jenni
Woke up EXTREMELY sore from the windfest and tent holding the pervious say at Squidfire’s Art Mart, but still I wanted to go to the JFX Farmer’s Market. So even though it was only 8am I had a cup of coffee (ok I had 2) and started sending kids off to get dressed. It was cold yet bustling all those plants wanting to come home with me. Instead we got some greens, asparagus and strawberries because they were so yummy and ripe smelling.
Afterwards we headed to Lowes to finish getting rocks and dirt for the raised beds Steve and the kids had built me a few weeks earlier.
So a shopping cart and contractor’s cart later home we head. After a few hours of work where I over worked already sore muscles and this is what I ended up with. Potato bins to the left, the raised bed, and sweet potato and garlic to the right with some marigolds tossed in to hopefully protect everything.
Then on the patio table we never seem to use I have some herbs and my tea cup planter full of Red Clover and Dandelions.
My favorite part of the day was sitting with the kids and planting their seeds in their Sesame Street planters.
Jack planted Bert & Ernie Peppers, Lexi planted Oscar the Grouch Green Beans, Finn some Elmo Tomatoes and Rory the pink Abby Cadabby Pumpkins.
Steve even put some wire on the bottom of the compost bin and got that set up for me too. I’m so excited about our little garden in the city this year!
We even had our first harvest of greens for a salad to add to dinner.
We had some great family time all together again with the kids really enjoying the pool.
