I was invited to create a workshop for PK-2/3rd grade children this summer during our annual Chautauqua festival. I am thinking of reading a couple of different books on plants and gardening and want to have students create a garden in a glove/shoe or whatever. I am looking for free books and seeds to give to these children this summer. If you would like to lend a hand, please post and I will send you an address to send the materials to. (Probably the school address)

Help us promote reading and gardening!

This new year has brought about a few changes. My daughter driving on her own (BIG CHANGES), my husband's company is taking off, I am taking a creative writing class, and my daughter is beginning an internship at a local paper. Some days I feel very old!

The good thing about growing up and growing older (not old) is that we can have different relationships. We are beginning to have that more mature parent-child relationship. I am not as scared as I was to let her drive by herself, she is not so afraid of growing up, we are adjusting to the possibility of her going to New York for college. I am not happy with that, but I can understand her desire to attend the best college for her career and future.

The husband and I may even have a relationship less founded on who is being the main parent today. When we no longer spend our 'free' time running from one place to the next for our child, we will have to spend time together and figure out who we are as a couple. It has been a long time since we were a couple. Where do we go from here, now that all of the children have grown up? How do we spend our time?