General Business

I haven't written here in so long, so I'll try to update a little. Here is Alexa in her cute Sunday clothes.. I am not sure why we hadn't put her glasses on yet. If I stand her on the piano bench she holds still long enough to take a picture. She seems to have hit the terrible two's or three's now that she is almost five. Every time I ask her to do something she runs the other way. She now has angry crying fits when David leaves for work, or when I deny her something she wants. You know the kind, where they go limp and fall on the ground and pull away. I am trying to do the thing where you give her two choices, so that she feels more in charge, but sometimes it's hard to think of two good options.

She still goes to therapy, once every two weeks, speech therapy and occupational therapy. This picture is just her playing on the ramp and stairs, I am not sure why she is carrying the pull rope.

We had a big garage sale and sold all the baby stuff. It was a relief to get it all out of the house.

I have been making scones right and left. Rhubarb scones mainly. Thanks for the recipe Holly! Here it is.

3 cups flour

1/2 cup sugar

6 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

Mix together and cut in

1/2 C butter

then stir in

1 cup milk

1 egg

If it is really hard to stir at this point I add a little extra milk

Then stir in whatever you want, fruit, chocolate chips, coconut

Drop onto a lightly greased baking sheet and bake at 400 for fifteen minutes.

If you like (and I do) ice with a little powdered sugar/milk glaze.

Also I have been very into making lemonade lately. They have good lemons at the coop and I have made two pitchers of lavender lemonade and one of raspberry. Both delicious!

Lavender lemonade

1/4 to 1/2 cup dried lavender

1 Cup sugar

5-6 lemons

Make tea with the lavender, allow to steep for 10 minute, strain into the lemon juice and sugar, dilute to 1/2 gallon approximately

Raspberry Lemonade.

Make the same way, minus the tea and dump a pint of raspberries in, mash them against the side of the pitcher with a spoon, and then let the whole thing sit in the refridgerator for a day or so. The raspberries sort of dissolve into the lemonade and make it so wonderful!

I got to lope/canter at my horseback riding lesson Tuesday. I am not sure if those two are the same thing..(Carleen?). I wasn't terrible graceful at it, and thus am very sore in the part of me that hits the saddle. I love it though, so fast!

We have the big meeting at the school today to decide where Alexa goes to school next year. This has been a very paperwork laden process, and seems sort of ridiculous, but we should get it finished and figured out today.