Tonight was our ward activity. We had the privilege of learning what we need to do to get ready for spring, at least in relation to our gardens and pruning our yards. Michelle has done quite a bit of research in the past trying to get the best possible garden so most of the information sounded very familiar. And since Michelle is our garden mastermind I just follow her directions as closely as possible.
Because of her expertise and previous success in gardening, last year excepted, she was asked to share a few thoughts on container gardening. While container gardening isn't really her forte, she did do a presentation for the Relief Society last year and apparently the bishop remembered. So she was one of the three presenters at the activity.
Our boys were definitely not interested in learning about gardening and were busy being boys. David managed to get a scratch from his temple to his chin, Donovan fell off the stage into the easel holding the gardening example drawings, Michael smashed his nose into the front table and Aleky kept through bean bags at the back of people's heads. (I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to quarantine my family for church on Sunday.) We finally had to sit all our boys down to prevent anything else from happening during the 90 minute activity. But since there was ice cream at the end, they felt justly compensated.
Donovan ended up falling asleep at the table waiting for everyone to finish talking about pruning trees. David and Michael made a break for the open door and had to be corralled at the far end of the building. Aleky decided he was done running and wanted to take a stroll back to the car. But in the end we headed home as quickly as possible and had all the boys in bed in just 15 minutes! We glad that the we could participate in our ward activity.
