Hello Spring!
\nIts beautiful at the ranch right now. The flowers are blooming and I actually have my garden planted. I???m hoping for at least enough veggies for salad and home made salsa. I have really enjoyed using the new growth around us to help teach my little boys about God???s creation. Spring also brings a few dangers to living in a rural area. SNAKES! I have been dreading our first snake encounter and have had a watchful eye on the boys outdoors. Saturday confirmed those fears with a 7 foot Bull snake!! Yes I said, 7 feet. Bull snakes are harmless and actually aid in keeping down the rat and squirrel population. However, I believe this snake was keeping down the small pet population as well. Daniel was able to use the snake to scare the boys and our dog so that they hopefully are on the lookout as well. We let him go, we just relocated him a little farther away.<\/p>\n
Bearcrow<\/p>\n
Last week I took the boys shoe shopping and Noah, of course, had a very specific shoe in mind. He wanted tennis shoes and he kept telling me that he wanted bear-crow. I had no idea what he was talking about, but I told him if he found it, I???d get him Bear-crow. He got the idea that Tanner had Bear-crow and so he of course had to have it. As we entered the store he yelled, ???Mommy see, that???s it, Bear-crow!???. And sure enough there were shoes with bear-crow (commonly known as Velcro!).<\/p>\n
Summer clothes<\/p>\n
Every year my kids go through this shock of changing seasons. Mostly through clothing. It starts getting warmer and they are still insisting on jackets and hats. This year Noah is struggling with short pants. It has really bothered him that his knees and shins are showing. I got him dressed the other day and he looked at me like I was crazy. Like, how could a mother send her child outdoors half-dressed! We have been battling shorts vs. pants for the last week. Thankfully it started raining and we haven???t had to discuss short sleeves and short pants again.<\/p>\n
My little artist<\/p>\n
Both my boys take a nap at about the same time during the day, giving me some mommy time. The other day, however, I decided to take a nap too. I must have fell into a deep sleep because I never knew that Noah had stayed awake. To my chagrin I awoke to him calling him half-way through naptime. I quickly and angrily told him to get back to bed and go to sleep! I woke up before the boys and checked on Noah. He was lying on his bed asleep, covered in permanent marker! From his feet all the way up his legs. I then walked past the bathroom and found where he had gone to wash it off and I suppose the marker took control of him again, and he wrote all over the bathroom toilet seat and sink. Later, when I ask him why he would do such a thing, he put his head in his hands and just looked at me bewildered saying, ???I just don???t know why I do these things mom, I just don???t know why???. And really, that wraps up my little Noah, in one adorable yet frustrating phrase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello Spring! Its beautiful at the ranch right now. The flowers are blooming and I actually have my garden planted. I???m hoping for at least enough veggies for salad and home made salsa. I have really enjoyed using the new growth around us to help teach my little boys about God???s creation. Spring also brings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}