This morning so far....

Feels productive. And it is barely past 6 AM. Nursed my woo woo. Deleted tons of spam. Answered emails. Sent the potty trainer to the bathroom. Gave permission for the 8 yr old to make chocolate oatmeal. And I am still in bed. ;) 

    This picture has nothing to do with this post. Except that I love my Joelle. She is a all out bookworm.  To a fault at times. She is currently thrilled since we have our first library card in about 6 yrs. the library's stink here. Small. Lots of empty shelves and lots of stupid books. But knowing us in 6 mths it will be useless to go in anymore. Guessing all worth reading books will be read. 

    Tempting to get a card in joplin and go in once a mth. I hear it is big and nice. And it is closer than grand view which is where most families from here go. 

    Basically I was really disappointed in the library. And it confirmed to me. Why I have always just boughten books. But my house can't hold them all. :( and I am trying to be really frugal. Pleasure books are mostly out. So the library sounded perfect... Boo.

    Oops guess the picture does go with the post now...

Lilley's birthday 8!!!!!!!

Poor girl was sick all day. So we only did a few presents. Parris got her beads. She loves making jewelry! We got her a bible (pink- couldn't find purple) and princess bible cover (also pink, thankfully it is her second favorite color!) and jewelry making tools.

Malachi gave her his hard hat. 

Wisdom looked cute and gave her a cookie. ;)

Tubby also colored a board for her. And wrapped it several days in advance. He couldn't wait for her birthday. <3 fun is planned for this week. Including her birthday meal plans. Which currently seem to change daily....

Malachi climbing.

He wanted me to snap a photo. But I didn't have my camera on me. So my friend Noel was able to grab her camera. It made his day. :) thanks Noel!

Oyster mushrooms!

I did my best to avoid harvesting mushrooms. Joelle has begged for years. Asking if I know what kind they are. If they're poisonous extra. I was able to detour her with finding and eating morels only. Cause we knew knew knew they were good. 

    But my girl is a forager at heart. Anything and everything she can forage she does. Last year she convinced me to try and eat puffballs. We have eaten them several times. And we are all still living. And never even felt sick. :) 

     Tonight. She found these. We left them and got online to research them. They are indeed oyster mushrooms. Back out to pick them. She left some behind. And we have lots here. I'm a chicken. But there are no poisonous lookalike s. except in Japan and Australia. So I should be safe. I hope. They had froze some. So tomorrow I will  help her wash and soak them in a salt water. Then cook them. 

    We have read to never ever eat raw wild harvested mushrooms. They can harbor bad bacteria. And make you awful sick. 

    We also read that you shouldn't eat a pound of them with a pound of butter. Cause you will get sick. And not cause they a poisonous shroom. Pretty sure that was a voice of experience there. ;) 

   But my girl is happy. She convince me of another shroom. 

Wisdoms adorable style.

Coolest. Even in pink.

He knows he is tough. Pink means nothing. Side note: he never wears clothes. Except when it's cold and I make him. Or it is Sunday for church. So since colder weather has hit. He gets mistaken as being Malachi.  It is funny!

Supposed to be napping...