My OWN Peaches

The very first spring after we moved into our house, we planted several fruit trees. Over the years we have added fruit trees and we’ve also had to replace at least a couple dead fruit trees every year. But we do still have one fruit tree that we planted that very first spring, and this year it finally bore some fruit!

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There were six peaches on the tree earlier this summer when I looked, but our gusty winds out here in Eagle Mountain blew three of them off while they were still very small and very green. Harvesting three peaches does seem rather pathetic, BUT it’s way better than zero peaches again. I’m SO excited to see it finally bearing fruit, and it gives me hope that next year there will be more. There are also some plums on the tree in the front yard, so we’ll just wait and see how many make it until they ripen. 🙂

Dinah Starts Preschool

Just like Jeremy was in a little neighborhood preschool group last year, Dinah is in one this year. She is young, but she is actually one of the older kids in her group. It’s a large group again this year too, so I only have to teach them once every 9 weeks or so. She has been really excited about being in preschool ever since I mentioned the group to her a few weeks ago. She was super excited when I took her to the store to pick out a backpack and pencil case a couple weeks ago. Today was their first day and she was so thrilled!

Also I’ve started babysitting a few kids three days a week. Our neighbor got a second job and so I’m watching her kids. Her oldest is Ethan’s age and is actually in the same class as he is. Her second is Tyra’s age, then her third is Dinah’s age and her youngest is about Chloe’s age, all girls. So the older kids are in school during the day. Jeremy is in kindergarten during the mornings. Then on Tuesday and Thursday mornings Dinah and the little girl that is her age both go to the preschool group and I’ve only got my two littlest girls and the neighbor’s youngest girl. Which is great because I was wondering what Chloe was going to be getting into while Dinah and everyone else were gone and Lydia is not big enough to play with yet. So now she will have a friend to play with and won’t be totally alone those mornings. So yes, I think I’m crazy for actually offering to babysit these kids, but I think it will be a good thing.

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First Day of Kindergarten

Jeremy started kindergarten this morning. Kyle took this week off so we could try to get some things done around the house, so he was able to go down to the school with us to drop Jeremy off. Jeremy has been waiting for this day for quite a long time, so he was SO excited.

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When the bell rang, he knew exactly what to do, and he went to line up to go inside. His teacher, Mrs Pinder, went to open the door and told all the kids to put one hand in the air, then she told them to wave their hand and tell their mommies and daddies goodbye. Then she led them inside for their first day.

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