A smidgen & progress

Finally, a little basil is growing! $10 bucks says it reaches harvest potential 1 week before we move! That's all right, it will make a nice gift to someone! Or we'll just gobble it up.

Progress- as of today our house is on the market. gulp. Can I just tell you how not ready to sell it is? Nothing like taking photos of your house to show you how much you need to do! On the upside, it's nothing structural, just cleaning and organizing and throwing massive amounts of things away! Slowly but surely. I've decided to try and work one room at a time getting it showable. Lord be with me if someone wants to see it soon! I'll make it work, but it'll take some coffee!

My Learn German the Fast and Fun Way came today; between that and listing the house this is starting to feel real. My eldest is starting to grasp that we're moving far away now and isn't taking it so well yet, though she's talking it out and that's huge. We had a long talk tonight about why we have to move and why we can't just live here forever and why her father can't get a job that never has to move. Sweet girlie. I've ordered some books that are supposed to help, we'll see if they do!

Surprise Beauty

As I mentioned before, the broccoli has been left to it's fate, however today when I went to see how bad it was I was surprised with the most beautiful flowers! And big, fat bumble bees :)

Who knew? I'm not sure how my broccoli would have tasted; it never looked like store broccoli, but I LOVE my flowers! I now (accidentally, but still proud!) have 3 pots of beautiful yellow flowers!

Wundebar! and redirect

This blog started as a way to track a project and turned into a tracker and inspirer of many projects! I am thankful for that! However, recently we found out we'll be moving abroad, shortly, so my project now is getting our life in order! My broccoli's gone to bloom, I haven't replanted the tomato seeds my youngest dug out and dumped on the floor and the bread? Well, there's dough in the fridge, but who knows how it'll bake out! The only project I'm determined to finish before we go is the girls' dresses. Did I post about that? I bought a pattern and the fabric for "an easy dress you could make in a day!" (so sayeth the sales lady; clearly we're at different sewing, time management and motivation levels.) That was last summer, 2010. yeah. But I'm 90% done with my eldest daughter's dress, thought the remaining 10% is the buttons. Button holes currently rank with black holes in there level of mystification. I'm sure once I figure it out it'll be one of those, "oh that? Took 5 minutes" kind of things. But not yet. I'm making the exact same dress for my youngest so the second one, in theory, should be much faster, right? Here's hoping!
I will keep this blog on our travels so you can all keep up with all the tasty things I'm eating ;) And perhaps some pics of the kids and sights- but really, priorities here, let's focus on the cheese possibilities!
There is so much do in a few short months! Passports, sell the house, sort the house; stress levels increasing in that order. Oh, where are we going? Germany! Wundebar! Long live sauerkraut and beer! Hopefully I am not as wide as I am tall when we move back! Though truly, if that were to happen, I'd really want it to happen  via strudel.