Saturday, April 26, 2025

Saturday, April 26, 2025

Tonight's picture was taken in April of 2004. Mattie was two years old. I absolutely love this photo! I was trying to snap a picture of Mattie, and as you can see he was intrigued by the camera (yes a real camera--pre iphone). Mattie was reaching for the camera in hopes of exploring that gadget! My nickname for Mattie was gadget boy, because he truly was intrigued by how things worked and quickly learned how to use tools and gadgets to take apart and re-assemble his toys! Mattie started doing this at age 2, and I figured all children did this, until I realize this was an unique skill of Mattie's!

Quote of the day: No matter how bleak or menacing a situation may appear, it does not entirely own us. It can’t take away our freedom to respond, our power to take action. ~ Ryder Carroll

This afternoon, I spent several hours outside in my backyard weeding! Weeding at my house is a full time job! I am absolutely in love with these irises. A local artist gave me bulbs from her garden. She literally handed them to me in plastic buckets. Frankly I never planted or grew irises so I wasn't sure if I could get them to take. Aren't they absolutely glorious? I do not know if I love the purple or pink ones better! But what I do know is I have never seen a pink iris before!

On Thursday, I bought roses to replace the ones that died from our brutal winter. The former roses were planted when we moved into our house in 2021. 

Today I went outside and replanted new roses into these pots, with the hopes that they will take. I bought different colors. This is a vibrant yellow. 

This one will be a pretty pink!

This may look yellow, but it is actually an orangey yellow. 

This one is purple, though I admit it photographs pink. If you have been following along this week, they you know I have been struggling with carpal tunnel syndrome. It has been so bad that it kept me up for two nights. 

In theory I should not have been outside digging, pulling weeds, and planting. Literally my hand was bothering me all day. But here's the funny thing, after doing all that planting, my hands and arms feel better than they have all week. I am hoping this is a trend.