A tiny seed

I'm inspired and intrigued.  Maybe this is old news {I'm a stay at home mom, cut me some slack- my world consists of bubbles and playdoh} yet I just discovered THIS: Seed Vault and my mouth dropped. 

Even cooler- I've been there!  Okay, not in the Seed Vault, but in 2006 we spent a day on Longyearbyen, Svalbard hiking a glacier with a dog, a guide and a shot gun.  Oh yeah, I was 6 months pregnant too.  Fun times!

Speaking of seeds, one more thing I found, that I have not seen but think it would be so beautiful in person is this:  The Seed Cathedral

Curious and Curiouser

Successful bee capture on a late summer afternoon. I wonder what will be of this little boy one day?

Also of note:  The plastic dino in the background.  Ha!

Local Lephrechauns

I do realize this is majorly out of season/ order/ organizational deficiency syndrome, but I've throw in the towel in attempts to make everything chronological.  It just ain't gunna happen.

Ahem...without further ado, I give you, my St. Patrick's Day Post.

Local Leprechauns!

For the past two years the boys and I spend a few days making goody bags full of golden/ green treats and cleaver little notes and mysteriously leave them at friends door steps around St. Patrick's Day.  The idea is to show our good friends just how "Lucky" we are to have them in out lives.  A heartfelt thanks for being friends who we can count on, trust, giggle with and live life with.  The previous year was a huge success, even when we were caught by our unsuspecting recipients.  This year....well nearly every house we stopped at we were caught, and brought a few tears to the eyes of a certain 3 year old.  Seriously, isn't life just ironic.  Who know, being caught by smiling faces was going to cause such heartache?! 

Annnnd....our actually St. Patrick's Day morning mystery.  I am however perplexed as to how my 6 year old knows the tooth fairy is his mother, yet completely clueless as to how the milk in the fridge turned green, or better yet; the green paper cut out feet taped to the wall are truly footprints left by the sneaky little green men who jiffied their way into our house in the middle of the night?!  Baffled!

Fresh

Fresh from our garden, we found some wonderful winter vegetables over the cooler months this year.  They proved to make hearty soups and stews all winter long, not to mention two curious little boys delighted at their garden's progress.  And yes-  there are some benefits to living in San Diego, like 75 degree weather in mid February (when these pictures were taken).