Today, I finally sowed some seeds. 🎉

Marketmore Cucumbers ✅ Clemson Spineless Okra ✅ Red Burgandy Okra ✅

Birthday eats from yesterday: crawfish hand pies w/ crispy Brussels + blueberry cream cheese and Biscoff king cake cookies (and @Mtt’s choc chip cookie)

A plate of hand pies drizzled with sauce is served alongside a small bowl of roasted Brussels sprouts.A box contains four assorted cookies, two with purple icing and sprinkles, one with cream icing and caramel drizzle, and one chocolate chip.

Louisiana’s “second winter” arrived (“almost, but not quite Spring” will be here next week, though, so it won’t last long), so cat snuggles this morning. Pretzel 🐈 was appreciative.

A child wearing a purple beanie and teal jacket sits on a cushioned outdoor chair, holding a cat.

Some impromptu extra “school” time outdoors this afternoon: Finding tracks and identifying them 🦝 + picking dandelions, etc. and watching a timelapse video of how they morph from bloom to seed.

Animal tracks and a stick are visible in a sandy area surrounded by green foliage.A hand holding a small bouquet of yellow dandelions and white wildflowers against an outdoor background

Cute lil’ hedgey Valentines Ro gave to co-op pals this week. She also made another whole set. And B made his own set with personalized pictures on each one. ❤️

Two Valentine cards featuring a hedgehog design with a small spiky ball gift attached

My 5 year old daughter gave my 8 year old son a bag of coffee for Valentine’s Day, and I’m pretty sure B was happier about the coffee than the LEGO we got him (though he appreciated that too).

Letting my kids bake some cookies on their own. I feel both slightly nervous, but also really proud of them on multiple levels. They’re so excited. And I am too.

I’ve so enjoyed cuddling up in bed every other night with my bud and reading two chapters of (our 1970 thrifted edition of) The Chronicles of Narnia series. We finished The Silver Chair last night.

A book titled "The Silver Chair" by C.S. Lewis rests on a floral-patterned bedsheet next to a red-orange textured blanket.