Prize-Winning Cabbage

At the end of school last year Ethan brought home a little cabbage plant in a styrofoam cup. He had a sheet of paper that explained that if he grows this cabbage and takes a picture of it when it's all grown up, he'll be put in a drawing for a $1000 prize.

I don't think it necessarily has to be the best cabbage or the biggest cabbage. It is just a completed and good-looking cabbage.

We cut it this morning. It is huge. It is 11 pounds! Really, I'm not the master gardener. I don't quite know how many of the leaves to peel off before we get to the real head. His may be smaller if I knew that. It's very oval shaped.

Now what do I do with this cabbage? If anyone has any recipe ideas, please let me know. The gal that cuts my hair said she stir fries it. That doesn't sound too bad, but I already can't remember what she stir fried it with.



And this is my little cabbage. She didn't want to be left out.

I Ran the Race.

I am done working! We had a jury trial scheduled for the rest of this week, but the guy decided to plead guilty, so now I'm home again. Yippeee.

I found this out yesterday, so I raced home and took Grace to the doctor. She had to get shots. Then this morning I needed to go back to tie up loose ends and gather my things. I left home, and as I was driving they were talking about a very bad storm heading our way. The kids were by themselves for just a couple hours until the sitter would arrive. I was worried about them and called home as soon as I got to work. It all worked out, and the storm wasn't too terribly bad where we are.

We had a good day, and ended it with a swim in the pool and movie afterward. It was fun. Gertie went to bed well.

She is getting her tonsils taken out on the 21st of this month. They really don't look good, and I thought the ENT might recommend this, and he did. They want to keep her in the hospital overnight since she's so young, but it's pretty routine. I'm trying to be a big girl about the whole thing. I can do this.

John is at his mom's house trying to help her prepare to move. I miss him.

I'm sleepy and I need sleep. ZZZzzzzz....

Corrections

I've been having a hard time with this Blogger. I don't know if it's Blogger, or it's me. It's probably me. But I was posting pictures, and they were showing up and looking fine, and then I'd go back later and they'd be gone. And then I was having a hard time uploading pictures into Blogger. This morning I finally got it all straightened out, but if you've checked in in the last couple days, please go back and look at my pictures to make sure you saw all I wanted you to see. I'd hate to have you miss out on some really cute kids.

Would You Swear or Smile?

And one important note: Spaghetti is not on the menu.

You're Outta Here

Can you tell I'm in a collage sort of mood? Ethan's baseball season came to an end this week. I love watching that kid play. And these are some memories.

I had to get this one on here as well. This was some more of the fun from the Jazz Fest with the Morris Family. Good memories.

Jazz Fest '08

I know too much time has passed. When the time gets away, it is harder to sit down and recall with any sense that you're holding the attention of anyone reading, but I'm going to try. Last weekend we went over to Sioux Falls for the Jazz Festival. My social calendar hasn't been so full in a long time. I had a very fun time with my husband and children on Friday night. We had arrived in Sioux Falls at about 4 p.m., I think. We checked into our hotel, let the kids jump in the pool, grabbed some dinner at the Cracker Barrel, then headed over to the show. The kids had a lot of fun watching the crowds and enjoying the music. John took the kids up close to dance around a bit and Gertie came back reporting that she "stood in line" with Dad for a while. We were there until midnight. It was way too late, but well worth it.

We switched hotels the next day. We found one with a water park that was very reasonably priced. We checked in just in time for Gertie to take a very long and much needed nap, and the kids put on their suits and swam all afternoon.



My best friend from high school brought a couple of her boys over and we got to sit by the pool and watch them run around and go down the slides as we caught up with each other. It was so fun to see her and her kids. Her son Jacob is starting to look so much like her.

And then after we ate some dinner together, John and I took our kids back over to Jazz Fest again for another dose. We were going to meet Ethan's great friend from school that had moved away a couple (boy, does time fly) years ago. He was so excited to see Marisa, and I loved watching them meet up again. They looked like they wanted to give each other a big hug, but they restrained themselves. They had a good time catching up while we got to visit (as much as you can while music is blaring) with her parents. It was good to see them again. We were up and down and over there and back again so much that the time flew by and it was time to get home before I knew it. There was no room for another midnight journey home again.