Sleeping In

I don't get to sleep in much anymore. Robert is good about getting up with Sam and letting me sleep a little but you can still hear the kids when they are downstairs - at least in my small house. But this morning Robert had a breakfast meeting with a chaplain about our neighborhood Bible study so he left before 6:30. That left me in a quiet house and no alarm to get up to! What a treat to sleep to 8 o'clock in a quiet house!
And an extra fun thing was to wake up and find our pumpkin plant blooming. Now I am not a gardener. I have a black thumb. But Gabby, on the other hand, can bring home plants from preschool in a paper cup, throw them in the ground and they will bloom all summer and be beautiful. She wanted to plant some things so we did. We didn't spend much time on it, planting time got mixed in with sick Sam time, so mostly things were thrown into the ground. We were doing well on our blueberry bushes until the deer jumped our fence and ate them. We have a huge pumpkin plant now and it it blooming! That is a success to me! We also have some zinnias about to bloom. Hopefully they will still be blooming when Gabby gets back home.