Right now...

We are:

enjoying this book;

getting ready for a very busy weekend;

loving that the sun is out even if it is just for awhile;

watching hundreds of tiny worms crawl around our living room;

anticipating with some trepidation just how many leaves that many worms can eat;

hoping everyone has a really wonderful Friday.

Good good morning

We awoke this morning to the most beautiful sight. The sun. It has been many days since we have been greeted in the early morning by this stranger. What a pleasant surprise.

And with the light streaming in, we crouched down with our noses to the floor and tiny chickens cheeping in the background (yes, there are still baby chickens in our house.) to marvel at the first "birth" of our nearly 2000! silkworm eggs (idea here).

We will be off marching in the sunshine today to collect some tiny little mulberry leaves for our new tiny little friends. So many mouths to feed and so little time you know.

So many worms. So so many worms.

On a particularly rainy afternoon, and we have had many of them lately ( over 13 inches of rain in the last month), the kids and I were trying to come up with some lunch and dinner ideas. I love Cynthia Lair's book, Feeding the Whole Family, so I turned on the computer and put her name and book title into the search bar to see what we could find. What we found was us sitting in front of the computer for the next hour watching videos from her website called Cookus Interruptus. Yes, my children sat on my lap and watched cooking videos. And loved it! Then after we watched all we could watch inspiration overtook us. We went out to the greenhouse to pull some vegetables and spices and immediately began our lunch preparation, Rosemary Red Soup.

Addie pretested some of the carrots for us to make sure they were okay for the soup. They were. We threw it all in a pot, let it cook for awhile, and then sat down to a nice lunch that we had all helped make. And I really believe it's those sweet helping hands that make it taste so much better and not just to me either. Owen and Carmel sat down to eat knowing that they had made a considerable contribution to our lunch and so, lunch seemed to pass more peacefully. Carmel did have one critique though, she thought we should have made the soup more red or in her own words, " I want dat soup mo RED!". So next time, more beets. Until then, amidst all this rain, I am thinking on this recipe a bit. I'll let you know if I make it.