Worth the Effort

Last spring one of Luke's coworkers gave us some pepper and tomato seedlings. Since we don't eat fresh tomatoes here, I used the tomatoes to make spaghetti sauce to freeze. It was a long, messy, putzy process - partly because the tomatoes weren't the type of tomatoes typically used to make sauces with. When I finished, I had serious doubts about whether I wanted to plant tomatoes again - it seemed like an awful lot of work for the amount of spaghetti sauce I got.

After eating the homemade spaghetti sauce all winter, seeing the boys take seconds and thirds every time we had it, and learning from my friend Cheryl that Roma-type tomatoes are better for sauce, we decided to go ahead and try again.





I guess those happy grins and messy faces are worth the effort!

Jet Packs

A while back I saw instructions for a simple rocket pack on this blog, and thought it would be fun for the boys. We covered ours with paper so they could decorate them with markers, but we added tin foil accents. Benny seems to think he's pretty awesome, don't you think?


They raced up and down the hallway ... note the multipurpose space/police helmets.


And who would go into space unarmed? Certainly not Ethan!




Balloon break! (Benny told me today that he "wuvs pink".)


Ethan and Alex teamed up to explore space, only to be stranded on Planet X. Thankfully they made it back before lunch.