I finally marked “Grow My Own Vegetables” off of the Mighty List yesterday. Our little garden has been growing nicely, but yesterday was the first time we really harvested anything out of it. (Pete and I have been grazing for a week or so, but that didn’t count.)

Yesterday Rockford went out in the rain and picked a salad for dinner. It was the most delicious lettuce I’ve ever had. Seriously. It was super tender, and it didn’t taste like plastic. I think we’re going to expand our produce empire next weekend with some strawberries, watermelons, cucumbers, eggplants and pumpkins. Unless it’s too early to plant those things. I haven’t really looked into that, yet.

My hope in starting a garden this year was that Poppy would finally yield to the experts who say if you involve your kids in cooking they’ll eat vegetables. We started with Letting Her Pick The Veggies At The Store, then moved on to Letting Her Help Cook The Veggies. Neither worked, so we thought we’d try Let Her Grow And Harvest The Veggies. She very much enjoyed planting the seeds and watering the garden, but she won’t so much as touch the lettuce, much less eat it. Oh well. More salad for the rest of us, I guess.

Monday: Subway

The children have been asking when we could go to Subway again. Tonight we have some out-and-about busyness to attend, so they’ll get their wish.

Tuesday: Spaghetti

I think I may be in a pasta rut.

Wednesday: Birthday dinner

We’ll be celebrating a fourth birthday with a friend. I hope there’s cake.

Thursday: Zatarain’s Jambalaya

I fell for one of those Buy This Thing and Get a Bunch of Stuff Free Meal Deal things at the grocery store a few weeks ago. So we’re going to give this a shot!

Friday: Baseball food

We’re going to a baseball game, so it’ll probably be hot dogs or nachos.