So, I'll let you in on the interesting day that I have had.

First, I managed to get through all of my grocery shopping with my little magpie, who never has a quiet moment in her life. Yes, I mean that. She still makes noises when she sleeps, including the sucking noise that I find so disturbing, because it means that she still won't stop sucking her thumb even though her tooth is crooked. God was with me today, because there became a point in time when I really wanted a roll of duct tape and a volume control button. *chuckles* Worse yet? She's just like me. The only difference is that my mom called me "motor-mouth". Vroom-vroom.

After getting the groceries into the house and searching madly for all of the frozen/cold stuff, I remembered that ........oh yeah, the new rules say that you have to have your new license plate tabs on the first of the month, or you are late. It used to go by the date of your birth. So, I stuffed the food into the fridge, made DD a peanut butter sandwich on a hotdog bun, and we ran for the car.

I don't know how mom's with multiple children ever make it through Secretary of State. Honestly, I spent most of my waiting time wishing that I had though to bring DD's old stroller. Aside from the fact that it is a portable seat (since there was only one chair open), it also has straps that I can use to force her to stay in one place! lol Instead, she sat on my lap and showed no sign of stopping the quirming, wriggling, and begging. She wanted to get up and run around the room like a nut, not understanding that the dour-faced ladies behind the counter would happily ask us to leave if I didn't keep her quietly contained. Did I mention that we had a terribly long wait, and that multiple people would have loved a convenient excuse to explode in bad manners? Oy.

We did make it through our visit with the grumpy ladies though, and without much incident. After a couple firm words to DD, she seemed to settle down, and we played a version of I-Spy, recited the alphabet, and worked on counting. That was so much better, and at least I had something to do other than staring at the ugly panelling in the room, and wondering if the older lady in front of us knew that the top of her stockings was showing through the slit in her skirt. *twitches* I am a pretty patient person, but that was a LONG wait.

So, we get to the counter, and DD thinks that it is time to start acting up. You know, she tried to hide underneath my skirt?!? Really, she lifted up my dress and tried to slip between my legs. It's a good thing that I'm so scarred from an unintended flashing incident as a child that I wear leggings under my skirts. lol Do you know what it does to a girl to fall down and have the neighbor boys teasing her about having seen her nickers? Oy. *shakes head, laughing* So, I shooed DD out of there, and made her hold onto my sweater while I signed all of my papers. Thankfully she even sat still while I was having my picture taken for my new license.

Butterscotch Cream Pie

Baked 9" pie shell  (I made a graham cracker crust, since we like it the best)
3/4 cup light brown sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups milk

It is being reported now that Terri has died. There is a part of me that is very upset and a bit angry, basically because I believe that her husband and our government leaders have failed her. On the other hand, I feel happy for Terri, that she doesn't have to deal with any of this garbage any more. After living for so many years in a severely damaged body, I wonder if she's dancing a jig over the new one that she's got. I just thank God for His grace, mercy, and love which gives us hope.

If it isn't already obvious, my garden just isn't doing very well. I began my seedlings a couple weeks ago, thinking that since it was a relatively slow process, my plants would be hardy by the time the weather was nice enough for me to plant them. However, I think that I will have to try it again.

My seedlings had a really great start, tucked away in their greenhouse tray. The soil was moist, and the plants really thrived. Of course, my beans did the most growing, and were the cause of my removing the lid to the container. Those beans grew so high that I had no choice.

Well, in trying to keep the cats from chewing the tops off of the plants, DH put them on top of my kitchen cabinets. I figured that that would be fine. I would just have him bring them down for me so I could water them every couple of days. I bet you can guess what happened. Now, over half of my plants are dead. The only ones that really are thriving, just happen to be the beans. I do have some cucumber plants that seem to be doing alright, and maybe one tomato plant. However, the rest are either dead, or on their way. *pouts* Bummer. This really has me rethinking the garden thing. Maybe I should just keep my black thumb out of it and buy my veggies at the farmer's market this summer, eh? *sigh*

Trying to stay upbeat, I think that I am still going to try and prepare the ground, and begin again. This time I know that I have to be really careful about the soil drying out in my warm kitchen. If all else fails, I can just seed directly in the ground, and just pray that something other than weeds pop up. lol I'm not holding out a great deal of hope though. Maybe I should just try to grow grass in my yard??