a little bit of life

yesterday i worked in the school library for awhile shelving books. thankfully there weren't as many books as there usually are because i was feeling pretty nauseous. i thought nobody at school knew about me being pregnant, but apparently Margaret has spread the word. i'm glad she's excited.

on the way to school yesterday morning the kids suddenly decided that baby should be named Ivy if it is a girl. we've always used family names, loving the idea of honoring our ancestors, but maybe we'll have to break from tradition and let them pick one of baby's names. i've been flipping through the notebooks of family genealogy for both sides, looking for ideas. i can come up with lots of good male names, not so many female names.

i spent most of yesterday cleaning house and doing yard work. in other words, it was a perfect day. my garden is coming along splendidly and we've already has some of the green leaf lettuce and arugula in a salad. my asparagus didn't produce a whole lot, but i'm letting it go to seed, and hopefully next winter, early spring i'll have even more. one shoot every couple of days just won't cut it for a soon-to-be family of 7.

i'm ready this book i picked up at the thrift store called Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. i've found it very interesting. it's a political history, not one about his personal life, and it's written by people who were in his cabinet, so it's quite positive of the late president. and quite negative of Lyndon Johnson. i've read quite a bit about Johnson, feeling somewhat obligated since he was born and raised here, and most of that was written by LBJ insiders who tried their best to honor the man. it's been enlightening to read what those outside of Texas thought of LBJ.

last night Brian and the boys escaped the house to make room for the girl scouts. i made red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, and we ordered pizza. it was such fun to gad with women folk for a few hours.

not the most flattering shot of some of the ladies, but here's a snap shot for posterity sake of the girls and moms doing meal planning for the upcoming trip to the GS cabin in Fredericksburg.

as i was cleaning house yesterday, i got this idea to do a tour of our house for my blog. so be looking for that some time in the near future.