We have green beans! Finally, our garden is starting to get a harvest. When Knut was out there weeding last weekend, he said that there were lots of blossoms on the green beans, with a few tiny beans already there. It dawned on me today that there was probably a bunch in there for us! I was not disappointed as the kids and I filled up two ice cream pails of beans.
The peas are ready-ish, but I only found a handful of about 10 pods that couldn’t wait until tomorrow, and the rest looked like they needed one more day. So I picked the few that couldn’t wait and we ate them raw for morning snacks. Raw peas are definitely the kids’ favorite and they were giggling with delight over the thought!
I’m on day 3 of a new push to have the kids help me more around the house. I’ve been listening to some homeschool podcasts on managing the home during the school year and got some great ideas on how to get the kids to help more around the house. This is our 3rd day and I have to say so far it’s working! After the kids helped me pick in the garden, I let them have their raw pea snack, and then we snapped the green beans together. A job that easily would have taken me most of the morning last year took me about a half hour to complete with the kids.
Now, they still whine, but I’m more determined than them this time, and even David has been following suit…eventually. So far my house is cleaner, and my jobs are getting done! Yeah! Yesterday, I had all of my daily chores (and caught up from chores from the day before) done before lunch, and I had the rest of the day to read and play with the kids, and I even got some very productive sewing time in. This progress is making want to keep this system of expecting them to help more in place!
I’m not saying that they don’t usually help. It’s just I tend to not like to take the time to teach them how to do it properly. They rarely get it done the way I like it done anyway, but I’m finding that they are getting to an age where me fixing what they have done is faster than doing it all by myself. I’m really liking this age!
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