I am lucky to be living this beautiful life. I have a lot of things going for me right now and I'm just trying to soak it in. Sometimes I get a little worried about the hard things that must be coming in the future because life is almost *too* wonderful, or sometimes I even get a little morbid thinking "What if the reason I feel so compelled to homeschool is because I'm going to die young and so I can't miss the chance to spend as much time with my children as possible." But most of the time I just feel incredibly grateful for this life. (And I hope that if I do die young my children will know how much I absolutely loved them and how I wanted to spend every day of my life with them. Ha.)
My biggest accomplishment of the summer might be my tomato plants. How many pictures of tomato plants is too many pictures because I LOVE these tomato plants. I have received so much joy coming out here and picking tomatoes to add to my breakfast or harvesting them to share with a friend. The smell, the abundance, the pure unfettered wildness of these tomatoes makes me so happy.
I had another great sisters night this month. We went to a fancy italian restaurant where they made pasta tableside by lighting a cheese wheel on fire and then dumping fresh pasta into the melted cheese and twisting it around. Everything was delicious and I loved spending the evening with my sisters.
My friend Tenille (a primary president from TM3 that I have served with for years) hosts a regular paint night where she pops onto a zoom call and teaches you how to paint something with watercolor. Lydia and I have done the class a few times, and we did it again this month, creating these darling little ghosts. I love that Lydia is old enough to do these fun things with me.
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