garden fever, daniel daniel daniel

so every time spring comes around and i'm out getting groceries at grocery stores...i can't help but notice all the plants and pretty flowers for sale... the bulb sets, seeds, etc. i'm not even looking for it, but it's there. and i love gardening. i love plants and especially those that flower... and so every year, about this time (every year i say, because since we've been married we've had debt and no money to spend on plants) i start wanting to buy plants... but this year is different...why? WE OWN A HOUSE FOR ONCE!!! and all the pitiful "lanscaping" DR Horton put in needs a makeover...every time i look at it i shake my head and start thinking what i'd like to see instead... only, we are trying to get out of debt...dragging on and on. lol. so i must pass all the pretty flowers this year again! ::sigh:: for now i have resorted to carefully plotting and planning what i'd "love" to have my yard look like...i say that because i browse the nurseries online and fall in love with a bulb that is $10 a piece! WOOOW that's pricey. but most bulbs multiply... just give it time.

so far, i have in my mind what plants i must have, i just have to figure out how to arrange them...

here's a taste:

purple rose (lagerfeld i already have)

pretty pink rose

pretty red rose


new dawn climbing bush

liliac

first lady asiatic lily

purple iris (my favorite flower)

indian giver day lily

hydrangea bush

pink flowering dogwood tree (i actually found one at lowes!!!)

clematis vine

peonies - they look like roses!

delphiniums

alliums

agapanthus

so i don't have pictured...spider lilies (i remember these growing up!) fox gloves and various annuals...

i don't mind the maintenance of a nice lanscape, i love to be out in the yard, so i'm not going for just bushes...lol. i LOVE flowers. the more unique/beautiful the better. i also am gaga over scented flowers...love smelling roses, and infact i don't think i'll ever pick a rose unless it smells awesome! i hate flowers that stink. lol. of course, most of these i've never had before, so i don't know if they have a smell or not...but i love how beautiful they are!

so i guess i'll take a break from that to mention...i finished my garden boxes today! yay. minus the cage. seeds/transplants are in, so water, wait, and see...

oh, and daniel has hit the terrible two's phase. darn. that little boy was such a sweet baby...and now he's an abnoxious toddler who pitches these screaming crying fits when he doesn't get his way...ugh. i sure TRY my hardest not to let it phase me...just get done what i need to do so i can get to tending to daniel...

2 days ago i went to lowes to pick up some more humus and peat moss, and since we were in the garden section, after daniel became uninterested in the car part of the cart...i decided i would let him down to run (i promised he could if he put his shoes back on, and he did, so i had to reward him for following through) but since i had what i came for, i figured i'd follow him around and practice his obedience skills by calling him back when i stopped and making sure he listened... i was non chalantly browsing flowering trees, and that's when my eye spotted "dogwood" i looked at the tag more closely and the picture too...and YEP, pink flowering dogwood! this tree supposedly isn't sold here b/c it doesn't grow well blah blah, but they had it! then i jeked my head around to see where daniel was and.... that was all it took, he was no where in sight. i called his name, no sound...as i started briskly walking around looking for him, abandoning the cart...an associate stopped me and said "your looking for a little boy? i thought he was standing next to his parents, but he was...well he was over there" i was at the opposite corner of the garden center by this point where it meets the doors to go inside the store...and my heart is pumping fast...why why why did i let him out of the cart! so i'm running through the back of the store calling his name finding nothing while the associate was telling other associates she saw to look for him and call "code adam" (mising child) i'm just about to break down and cry at this point as i see no sign of him...it wasn't until i was by appliance/cabinets area that i see daniel running away from an associate that is following him... i run and grab him and she tells me he was back in recieving watching them operate the fork lifts..."we almost didn't see him" AAAAAAA....in recieving!!!! o that was enough for me... i didn't let go of him and he didn't fuss...it was a mutual feeling...glad to see him again...

well, i had to get groceries at sam's...i only had daniel with me since kat was still in school, so i wanted to get it done with just one kid... and he was staying in the cart.... oh, he was not happy about that! the ENTIRE time we were in that store he wanted me to carry him...well, holding a 30lb child and pushing a cart...it aint happening...daniel was gonna have to get over it. i would cuddle him but not carry him... he kept standing up and jumping on me, which was getting on my nerves so i strapped him in so he would sit...he quickly got out of that...so i just held his arm to make him stay sitting...yeah, that was all before i even got to pick up any groceries...so he proceeds to sream at the top of his lungs and cry and pitch a huge tantrum...for the rest of the time. i simply tried to shrug it off and keep telling him he had to sit in the cart, but by the time i went to check out...and he was dripping of drool and snot cuz he had worked himself up so much...i was done with it...i hugged him while in line (while he stood in the basket) and he finally shut up...and other customers were saying "ooo, he's happy now, he just needed a hug" and "he stopped crying! WOW" i just had to smile and laugh because that wasn't his problem...i tried hugging him and he would push me away simply because he was mad that i didn't want to carry/let him out of the cart...ugh. whatever. i am not the mom that gives their kids what they want just so they will hush... not happening. he needs to learn a lesson...kids sit in the cart for shopping trips...needless to say i had all my patience drained at that point... and he fell asleep shortly after he got in the car...figures. which is the reason i hate going shopping with kids. kathryn demands to be out of the cart and walking around, and she wanders off and touches everything, so i always have to be watching her every move, which slows down the process, all the while daniel is jumping on me to get out of the cart and be free like kathryn!!! and it's a big wonder why make my shopping trips as infrequent as possible. ah, missed getting cheese...too bad... ::sigh:: i've had a rough few days with handling daniel's tantrums...i still don't know the best way to handle him when he gets in the crying screaming foot stomping rages... i've taken to just sitting him in time out and putting him back everytime he starts fussing again until he stops...and trying to explain in a calm voice over his screams that this is not the way we behave. i don't even know how to word it...lol. "we don't do this" "we don't act this way" everything is so general. i guess a simple "no fussing" will do until he gets older. ::sigh::

on a positive note, i had daniel outside with me while i worked on my garden (in the side yard) and we heard big machinery noises...we went to check it out, and it was a big...scooper machine? idk the name of it, but the CAT machinery...it was knocking down parts of the fence where the road stops so it could get through...then it started tearing up some temp fencing DR Horton put along the sides of the road...then a big 18 wheeler came in with about 8 concrete sewer cylinder thingys....lol. the CAT machine hooked a chain to the concrete stuff and unloaded them off the truck...daniel just watched and watched. he even went a little closer and did his cute full hand wave to the men working. they got a kick out of him and the CAT machine man honked the tiny horn to say hi to daniel and it scared him so he ran away. teeheehee...but any time he is in the street and he sees a car coming, he books in toward the house/me screamin "uh no, uh no" all the while. i keep telling him GOOD JOB DANIEL! we run away from cars in the street! lol.

and he sure wishes he could do what i do to my garden...i only let him water the squares...he tries to dig...and rake...it's cute watching him try. the rake is so much taller than he is and heavy for him.

i'll be off to bed now.