A new baby girl will finally be joining our family! We have waited for four years for this little person. So even though this will be a Christmas baby (something I said I'd never do), we are thrilled! Our family tends to come up with interesting names for the baby in utero. This one happens to go by the glamourous yet endearing term of "Slug." I happened to mention
once to the kids that in the first ultrasound (8 1/2 wks.), the baby looked like a slug. The name stuck. Poor child! We will try to come up with something better after she is born!
Our garden grew well for the first time ever! We have very prolific summer squash, small tomato trees, more pumpkins than we would want to remove guts from, cucumbers, green peppers, hot peppers, a random carrot or two, and even a couple of teensie weensie watermelons! Water and Miracle grow are a good combination! Of course, we can't figure out what to do with our bounty. Frankly, I think our friends are tired of my pleas to rid my home of extra veggies and I'm the only one who actually likes to eat what we've grown. So, our family night tonight involved squash baseball (imagine squash bats and green tomato balls), and a garden fashion show. I don't think this was what church leaders had in mind when they counseled families to plant a garden and use it!
