From Tantrums to Chard....

Man I felt dull yesterday.  Dull, dulled, bleary….whatever you want to call it.  Mother’s Day was great but came crashing down that evening with an hour long tantrum by a child too old to have tantrums like that.  Sometimes I think we don’t know what we’re doing.  Trying to find the right balance between rules and holding firm and talking about nothing but rules….does that make sense? 

I came home from work feeling a bit gray but was met with Ernie and Owen sitting around the fire pit in the front yard…..nothing better than having Owen grin wave when he sees you and shout "hey MOM----how was your day?"  Soon there were six kids floating around so we sent them to the park and sat and enjoyed the quiet and the fire and the flowers….  This is the reason we always end up eating so late…..  Then the crowd came back, a Lego club was formed, a faction took off for the park again and Leo ended up having his feelings bruised evidently by anti Lego Club wild children....  Damn, life is hard.....  We let him have chocolate chip waffles to make up for it....

How many pictures of swiss chard can one blog have?  I can’t help myself----Linda got this for me at the farmers’ market last Saturday since I couldn’t make it and it was GORGEOUS....the steam from cooking it clouds the picture a bit.....young and tender….all it needed was a splash of olive oil and a clove of garlic….