May or May Not Monday

May or May-Not Monday: Where you can divulge the secrets of life's mishaps without feeling like a failure. So go on... own up. I may have...

I may or may not have gone apple picking in our neighborhood orchard. Each little had a grocery paper bag to fill with the apples of their delights. My husband and I picked over a few trees to donate to charities. All in all 1800 lbs were picked and donated in a two hour window. We walked with our double stroller that our littles (8 & 6) happily still ride in and put the sacks of apples in their seats on the long walk back up the hill. A few days later, while on another walk, a little spotted a worm crawling in the canopy. It hatched out of an apple on the walk home and camped out for a few days. Yuck. 

We may or may not be consuming apples for the next week. It's going to be apple everything til we are sick of them. Between the two sacks there were over 100. After sorting through for non bruised ones, we have 40 to eat. The rest are being given to the goats at our neighborhood farm. 

I may or may not have volunteered to clean up the flower garden at the historical farmhouse in our neighborhood. We were told to cut everything back and pull out the weeds and beautiful still blooming hollyhocks. Super sad face. When we finished it looked not nice and tidy but unbalanced and sad. With a week before the major fundraising event, two of us tried our best to fix it with no budget. Lots of anxiety was felt about it not coming together. While it's not perfect or anything I'd like to assign my name to, it turned out okay. And peace can be felt again.

I may or may not have convinced my sweet husband to watch Love and Friendship through an app on our tv. Movies aren't my thing. So when a Jane Austen movie comes out it's an exception I will make. I almost went to the $3 theater to see it. By almost I mean I thought about it for less than a minute and dismissed it. Paying 5 bucks to view it on my couch was the best date I could ask for. Plus subtitles so you could keep up with the fast dialogue. It was great in my book! In my husband's, it was tough to follow. He was a great sport about the whole thing. 

I may or may not like our homeschool days best when they consist of going to our neighborhood farm to help and follow it up with going swimming. We've only had one of those days so far. The weather cooled quickly this year making the pool not an often thing lately. 

We invited a neighbor homeschooler over for science experiments. Two years ago I signed up for the year supply of Magic School Bus science experiments. We just did our first one this week. I may or may not have kept telling my littles we weren't going to do them until the weather was nice. Mostly I didn't want to do it alone. So now we have buddies to do them! Two of the experiments failed because I added borax to cold water and it didn't dissolve and we used up all the glue needed and couldn't start over. The instructions said "add water". Specifics of hot water need to be in the instructions Magic School Bus. 

I may or may not have skipped church on Sunday because I can't stand hearing non military people talk about 9/11.