Springtime

I am going to start this post by saying I am a hippie. That is right. I bottle my own food, my son wears cloth diapers, I recycle, and now we have some chickens :) 

This is how I was raised, and I never knew how odd it was until I started working, and talking to people at work.  They are all amazed that I would do crazy things like recycle, or grow my own food, or heaven forbid cloth diaper (gasp).  They would talk to me like I was a crazy person. Why would I go through all the trouble of doing all that work when I can go to the grocery store, buy already bottled food and disposable diapers, and just throw away all the excess. Why do I do this?  I feel accomplished, I love knowing exactly where my food came from, or exactly what touches my son's precious bum. It also feels right in a way I cannot explain. This is how people survived for centuries, and I love that I can live my life a little closer to that.

The time of year has come to start readying the garden. Liam loves to help. It is a nightly ritual that we go outside. Chris and I work while Liam gets as dirty as he possibly can.

He loves the grass, but does not like it to touch his bare skin, so he crawls around like this.

So happy to be outside

Do leaves taste good?

Dirt sure does not! 

A cocoon I found out in my garden. I am pretty sure it is a moth, but I have never seen one hatch so we are going to try.

I cannot wait until my garden starts producing.  Last year I didn't get as much bottling done as I would have liked because we had a brand new baby to figure out.  As a result we ran out of salsa, tomato sauce, and applesauce in February. That leaves us with at least 6 months of wasting money on grocery store food. . . So my goal this year is to get ALOT of canning done. After all we have one more mouth to feed ;)