Okinawa-rama

It's been awhile since writing. My mornings have actually been busy since starting Stroller Strides a week ago. It's kind of a "mommy and me" workout program, where you are doing ladder runs, squats, crunches and the like while hanging onto your stroller and singing nursery rhymes. It's a surprisingly good workout, plus I get to re-learn childrens songs that I haven't heard for a good 25 years ("the bear goes over the mountain", et al). I also get to eye other peoples stollers and develop a covetousness that I didn't know existed a mere three or for months ago. There are double decker strollers, side-by-side strollers, strollers in which the kids sit high up on their seat like a mack truck driver. Plus all manner of toys hanging from the strollers. My stroller is the sole non-jogging stroller in the group. Gabe just sits in his little carseat which I then plop in a stroller frame. He sits facing me and has an exciting view of mommy's flabby abdomen, while all the other kids get to face outwards watching the world go by. Not that Gabe minds. He's asleep the whole time. That carseat is like a baby sleeping pill for him.

This weekend we went on a little family expedition to get some gardening pots. Joe and I saw this guy on the news who gets all of his family's food from his yard. Everything in it is edible. So we were inspired and decided to start ourselves a little container garden. The first step was to get containers. We packed up the baby in the car and headed north about an hour to this place that sells pots from Thailand. There were pots of every size. Then to one side was a gorgeous little garden, and in the garden a pond dotted with clay pots in various levels of submergence. These were filled with water lilies and lotus flowers. I was even more inspired, despite my poor gardening history. The last time I started a gardening project I was probably 12 years old. I hoed up the back yard and ... that's about as far as I got. I grew some pretty impressive weeds though. But anyway this is a new dawn, a new day. I'm an adult now. A mom. I can do this! I think.

We chose three pots and a clay fish for a mere $35. On for vegetables. One for decorative plants and one for a little water garden. Here they are: