Did you enjoy my son's movie in the last post? Guess what? My daughter makes movies too!
Poor Santa, he got sour milk!
Hey I found out how to upload videos!!! For now on I will post the movies my kids make.
This movie was made by my son. I have some more to upload, and then I will show off the ones my daughter made.
We are just here, doing nothing. We were planing to go to Washington DC, but changed plans because my condition, yea here again, this Polymiositis dictating my life!. So, why am I here with extra time to do blogging, gardening, face booking and having a blast? Well, because one of my best friend is here! She flew all the way from Nebraska, just to put up with this weird woman, Me.
But that was nothing, what really happened is, God made me see how much He loves me. In telling our story I went back and saw what this friend has done for me, the things she has gone through, for me. I think that sometimes we have new people coming to our lifes and telling us this or that, and so we go with it, thinking that we have found someone that really care for us. But we should no be carry away with this new "friends". I think that if someone loves you, someone cares for you, then they should stand by you, not just once or twice, but for a long time. My friend has done that!
No, not everything has been sweet lollipops, we have had our moments! But after 10 years, we know what we mean for each other. I know she cares for me. And I got to see who has stood by my side, through my ups and downs. God showed me who just talked. I got to see, in my mind, a parade of people that promised me things, that said they loved me, that they cared for me. Its so easy to just talk, to promise things, to say I love you, but can you walk it, can you do what you say?
Well, things are slooowly going back the way we want. I'm taking care of the garden more often. When we were planing to sell this house, I stopped taking care of my flowers. Someone came and told me that if he bought this house he was going to pull out all the plants and have a "nice green lawn". I didn't want to waste my time on something that was going to the garbage. But as soon as I found out that I was not moving, I went back and started to take care of my garden.
Yes, I'm alive!! I little lost, but now I'm found!! Really busy fixing the house. Yes a homeschool organisation did a home make over in my house. As soon as I can I will post before and after pics.
We are trying to get back in routine. Is soo good to be able to just sit down and enjoy a meal peacefully, with out a pile of boxes all over the house. So bless with my beautiful home.
Today we are doing school, and a little of jumping on the walls. Here is a video if you need a little music to get you started.
June 11!! We are at half the year!! I remember as if yesterday it was January 1st!
I don't know about you, wherever you live, but here in Virginia it's soooo hot!
I felt that I needed to make a Spring-like bouquet, because it's not June 21st, not summer yet! It feels like midsummer, but it's Spring!
Even though my garden looks like a summer garden already! And most of the soft color flowers are almost done blooming and the hot bright ones are in full bloom.
Arcoiris is the word for rainbow in Spanish and Portuguese, which is that big colorful arch across the sky that we see after it rains.
Irises bloom sometime after the Tulips. By now their flowers are way gone, but I want to show off the flowers that I had last month.
These are Dutch Irises. I don't get to many of them any more. I need to plant more bulbs in the fall. And I only have one that blooms white.
They look beautiful in groups. But I like to have them here, and there, throughout my garden, mixed with the other spring blooming plants. 
Here is a close look of a Iris flower. That spiky part in the middle, is what made people call them bearded irises. That is Mr. Iris's beard!
I grow these plants for their beautiful flowers, and then I could cut them down to the ground, and wait for them to bloom next spring. But there are people that grow them not for their flowers, they grow them for their leaves!
The year before last year, I spend soo much time putting bouquets together. Then I would forget about them. And next time I knew I had stinky, green water, with brown flowers on my table, on top of my refrigerator, on my window and all the places I had put them.
Last year I skipped the job of cutting flowers to take inside my house. And told myself to never do that again! 
So when I read Rene's blog, I said that I wouldn't do that. 
But after seeing all those beautiful bouquets, I don't want to feel left out. I want my friends to see my flowers too! 
I have planted and cared for all these flowers. But the spiky one, the green one, the one that looks as if just woke up, and didn't have time to fix herself up. That one, I didn't plant! That's what comes out of wild onions! I think its a wild onion, I'm not sure, but when I do get to weed, and pull them out, the little bulb smells like onions.
For some reason this is the second year that I get to take it easy on this weekend. And that is how I get the chance to take pictures of our beautiful flag.
I keep the flag inside for most of the year, but on Memorial Day I make the time to display it. I'm very grateful for all the people that have given their life to protect our country!
I served the country too, but it was in peace time. So I'm so proud I have served, but I know it was soo easy compared to what other have done and are doing these days. May God bless you and your family. 
I like chocolates and on Sunday School they made this little boxes that look like kisses chocolate.
I got 2 of them, one very colorful, from my daughter. And the other one, very simple, but still full of love, from my son. 
Then they wrapped them and tied them up with a ribbon.
Thank you kids!!
And even some of the flowers are green. Look at the Lenten Rose, it has green flowers!
The next bulbs to bloom, in my garden, are the Irises. 
I have two types of them, the German Irises or Bearded Irises...
and the Dutch Irises.
After the irises bulbs get done blooming, there will come the lilies bulbs (below). Most of them bloom close to the summer. Well, I really don't want to get ahead to much. And even though a green garden is not my favorite, Spring is beautiful. We do have some problems with the pollen, but the weather is so pleasant! No humidity, no mosquitoes, just perfect!
Here is my clematis, it already has some flowers!
This is the salvia.
Here is the Showy Evening Primrose.
This is my faithful Blanket Flower. This plant will bloom all the way to frost!
This is the Shasta Daisy, this plant likes to come up all over the place, but if it comes in a shady place won't do good at the time of blooming.
And this is another type of Daisy, called Painted Daisy, its flowers are pink. They are so beautiful! Last year was the first time it bloomed. And only had one flower per plant, I can't wait for all of these buds to open up!
This is the Geranium 'Rozanne'. This is the first year that this plant will bloom in my garden!
This is the Yarrow, I post last year about it. I get all happy when I see a new flower in my garden! I planted it because its beautiful flowers, but I read this very encouraging blog of a lady up in Maine. She grows the Yarrow for skin healing oil and salves.
The next picture is of the Cone Flower. I seen two colors of them white and pink. It blooms some time after the white Shashta Daisy. At the time that I'm tired of white flowers. So, I only grow the pink one. It is also called Echinacea, and is used as medicine to support the immune system, and to purify the blood, especially during season changes and during the cold and flu season. Scientific studies of Echinacea have confirmed the presents of natural chemicals, echinacosides, which increase white blood cell activity.
And finally, the Foxglove! The leaves of the foxglove are medicinally used, despite being highly poisonous. I have read of people having very serious allergic reactions to its polen, its leaves, and even by touching the roots! I always wash my hands after dealing with this plant.
Foxglove is extremely useful in treating heart conditions. The constituents of foxglove increase the activity of the heart, arterioles and other muscle tissue. An initial dose can raise blood pressure considerably, but a moderate dose can slow the pulse and cause an irregular pulse to become normal.
