The Secret Garden

  There was a little touch of spring at our house yesterday.  As the storm approached, we had a little garden party and talked about the mother-daughter book club book, The Secret Garden.  It was a fun discussion, but we realized we don't know much about the British occupation of India or the Moors of England.  Oh well!  Everyone still enjoyed the idea of a garden restoring children to life.  Tiffany brought a beautiful key necklace for each person.  Thank you!  What a perfect party favor.  Jennifer brought all the ingredients for an egg head project, (Thank you!) except the dirt, which I had forgotten.  Ari and Elise went outside and dug up a bowl full of dirt for the project.  While the kids assembled their egg heads, I got gardening tips from Amber and Jennifer.  I'm going to start with, "Don't plant things until you have an automatic water source."  Believe it or not, I didn't follow that one last year.  I thought I could remember to water with the hose twice a day, but in this climate, one missed watering is - and was - deadly.

The book for next next month is The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt.  I started reading it last night, and the tone reminded me of The Wonder Years or A Christmas Story, but with lots of Shakespeare references.  If you have kids that don't want to read it, read a different book and bring it to tell about.  So book club is at 4:30-5:30 on March 19.  You're invited!