Dirt

A couple of days ago I set about in the kitchen making homemade veggie broth for some soup. I tried not to think about it being June when normally we would be breaking out the grill, brewing iced tea, and gearing up for strawberry shortcake. It was cold and we just felt like having something warm to eat.


Since I try really hard not to complain about the rainy season here in the NW, I won't start now. I mean who doesn't love 50 degree weather, grey skies, and lots and lots of water falling from the sky in June? So instead, I make my warm soup and read all curled up on the couch covered in a blanket to keep my feet warm.

I broke out a new book I got this past month called, I Love Dirt. It has a lot of ideas for getting outside and into nature with your kids. The biggest thing I took from it is to just get outside, rain or shine, everyday.

So while the soup cooked, we headed outside to finish digging out our garden boxes to finally get our garden going (See? A benefit of a late summer season!). Ian has a stash of his own garden and lawn tools to help us out.

We rented a dumpster just for dirt and the boys had fun digging around for whatever they deemed prizeworthy, usually in the form of rocks and insects.

We finally quarantined Sawyer to an empty garden box because he wouldn't stop eating the dirt and since I was making soup I didn't want his appetite ruined.

But looky looky! He's starting to stand up on his own everywhere now!

I know most boys like dirt, but I think Ian would be most happy if we had kept the dumpster and had just moved his bed right in, snuggled in between the clumps of old roots and all the creepy crawly things he was collecting in a jar.

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