This year Rachael and I planted an amaryllis bulb just before Thanksgiving. We were amazed at how fast and how big it grew. Every day Rachael would point out it's progress to me. It has fully bloomed and looks amazing. I think we've found a new Christmas tradition.
Rachael did it. I think she's too young for it, or maybe I'm just not ready. It was so out of the blue. She took me completely by surprise. I was frozen for a second or two. Thoughts of "What am I going to do? What am I going to say?" ran through my mind.
But, she did it. She looked me in the eye and said, "Why?"
My cactus blooms a little earlier each year. We had beautiful blossoms for Thanksgiving instead of Christmas this year.
Rachael loves "punkins". We picked ours at the Red Barn farm again this year. Rachael's favorite was a small white one about the size of a baseball. Go figure. Patrick has all the pictures of her in the fields on his phone. I have the ones on the straw bales. It is hard to take good pictures of her now. She doesn't hold still. It's a good thing she's cute.
I had one random poppy that bloomed in the middle of october, even after we had a couple of inches of snow. It made me happy.
Halloween dinner consisted of slimy snakes and zombie vomit. Rachael was iffy about eating it when I said "snakes", but once she started she ate it all. We didn't remember to take pictures of the girls in their costumes, or us in ours. Go figure. Happy Halloween!
Anna sat without support today for about a minute. She's getting so big. Where is my little baby?
