My Gardening Days Begin

As the spring is upon us, I've decided to try my hand at gardening. So it seems that Ellee wants to get her fingers into it all too.

I have planted some sprouts of cucumber, broccoli, parsley and rosemary in some indoor pods first. Then I plan on transferring them into pots outside and eventually into the ground. I've never gardened before and my inexperience I am sure will show through very quickly!
I currently have the seedlings in a small greenhouse in the living room on the floor, this is the best natural light source in the house. Ellee's toys are near by, but she has yet to venture into the world of crawling so I was not concerned she could reach the 4 feet or so over to the pods of dirt and seed. Well, she managed. I come back after washing dishes to find dirt smeared into the tan carpet and the remnants of the pod squeezed together. In her chubby dimpled hands, dirt. At the corners of her mouth, dirt. Gross.
It was the first time in her 8 months I had shown true exasperation for misbehavior. As I groaned her full name along with the words 'that's bad' she turned her pretty little eyes up at me, pouted her lip and whined.
I was shocked that she even understood any inkling of the fact that what she had done was misbehavior. It was probably more the tone of my voice and the disgruntled look on my face.

Well we all survived the predicament, well, maybe not the seeds in that particular pod....

Prior to the dirt episode, and bath time, was dinnertime!
As I have been the past couple of weeks I tried a new recipe. Monday has sort of turned into soup Monday. Last weeks soup was completely unsuccessful, tonight however was quite delicious. Cream of chicken with white and wild rice. Turned out well, except it seemed to lack a little something said the hubby. He helped it out with a large dosing of coarse ground pepper.
 It was inexpensive though which is definitely key! Probably around 5 dollars :) My kind of meal!
I will post the recipe too...