Easter Friday

When you are Jewish and work on the weekend you can celebrate Easter whenever you like. So that is what we did yesterday.  A friend shared the following Easter activity with me; plant jelly beans with your kids and surprise them with fancy colored lollipops that grew from the "beans".

I loved this idea but am opposed to almost any candy that does not involve chocolate, especially jelly beans and lollipops.  So I came up with a little twist that would ensure lots of chocolaty Easter fun.

1) Create and package "Easter Seeds".  I sliced chocolate chips in half so they were a little less recognizable then wrapped them up in a seed packet.  This was quickly thrown together while D watched tv.


Construction paper, double sided tape, and sharpies.

 

2) Have D check the mail.

 

Hey, what's this?!

He always puts the flag up to open the mail box.

 

3) Plant the seeds and give them a little water (then play in the mud of course).

4)  The next day before he came home from school I planted the carrots and waited. Even though they had been stored in the fridge they got a bit soft waiting for his arrival (72 degrees with a light breeze, not bad).

 

 

5) Reap the chocolaty "fruits" of our labors

I think we will do this again next year. He was very pleased with his harvest.



 

 



Sprouts!

It comes as no surprise to me that as soon as i had given up on my apricot seeds they sprouted.  Just a couple of days ago i bought an orchid at the grocery store to console myself for what i thought were my loses and to fill my need for something growing in what i want to be spring time.  I was rather disappointed that i had let the seeds sit too long in the fridge and then, after planting them i had clearly over watered.  Then, today as i glanced at the window sill i spotted two adorable little sprouts.  I am hoping there are more to follow, though i will guard those two with my best efforts.

I have had it in mind for a long time to start up the blog again. My only obstacle was figuring out what I ought to say to reintroduce my aim. So I won't say anything. Today I planted apricots from seed. I followed instructions found here. though, I didn't precisely follow those steps so I will not get my hopes up for an orchard. Mainly the apricot kernels sat in the fridge for more longer than i intended and some dried out while others got moldy. Ten were planted. I will be thrilled if two sprout.

9 containers, 10 seeds, all fingers crossed