{pretty, happy, funny, real}

What is this {pretty, happy, funny, real} you speak of?

~ {pretty, happy, funny, real} ~

Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~

Every Thursday, here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!

We’re enjoying our last Oklahoma spring. It’s amazing how green everything is right now, with the leaves mostly on the trees and the the storms starting to roll in and leave everything glowing behind.

Can we call this our kitchen garden? I think we’ll go with that. It sounds nicer than “That Bitty Bit of Dirt We Keep Talking About.”

The kids do spend a lot of time tending it. We’ve had one (tiny) salad from it so far, and just the other day planted the rest of the lettuce seeds in the empty spots left after overly attentive toddler gardening techniques prevented most of our peas and carrots from sprouting. (We have two of each in this box, and one brave snap pea plant that’s making a go of it way back behind the shed where I told the kids they could plant the rest of the seeds.)

(Can you tell that the front of the planter doesn’t get as much sun as the back? Not ideal for starting seeds, hm. Should’ve put in more soil.)

This little sweetheart turned one! We all agreed she would appreciate carrot cake for her birthday, and we weren’t wrong. (We made a little one-layer cake and a bunch of cupcakes so we could share with some friends with a new baby, just in case you picked up on the cake discrepancy there in the photos.)

We’ve been working on getting our house on the market, which means lots of cleaning, decluttering, organizing, and generally doing all sorts of things that we told ourselves we wouldn’t wait until we were moving to do, but did. That’s the way it goes, isn’t it?

I do now have approximately one million photos of my house looking sleek and svelte, and that’s something.

(Poor girl can’t figure out how to blow the seeds off a dandelion.)

We’ve got our first showings coming up, so it’s time now to perfect our laundry-basket-blitz-out-the-door routine, and put St. Joseph on the job to cover the rest.

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