Odds and Ends

As promised these are the pictures of our eggs cooked. I know it seems silly to post pictures of backyard fresh eggs, but you can really see the difference in color of the yolk compared to even a store bought organic egg.

After our delicious breakfast of backyard fresh eggs and homemade wheat toast I decided to take advantage of the lovely weather and my husband's willingness to clean the house. I stepped outside into what will be our garden this year and began cleaning and organizing. I dug up worms for the chickens as a reward for their eggs.

This morning was our daughter, Eden's first day of independent study for her new school. Yes, it's a holiday today, but because she is currently so far behind she doesn't get holidays. Welcome to the real world! Amazingly for her English assignment her first task was to write a paragraph about food safety and tainted meat. Considering this is close to my heart and close to hers it was easy for her to write a paragraph in favor of ways to make our food safe.

Before writing the paragraph I asked her what she planned to write. I was happy with what she chose and asked her what the law was that would help our food safety. Without hesitation she quoted Kevin's Law and what it would do if voted into law. I was very proud!

I don't force my beliefs on my children. I simply watch, study, read, and listen to both sides in their presence and allow them to make their choices on politics, religion, climate change etc. Sometimes they see things the way I do and others they don't. In this case I was particularly proud because I put the movie Food Inc. on and she sat and semi-watched it with me. She was on her ipod and phone at the time. We watched it again later that night because I really felt my husband needed to watch it and she really paid attention, obviously.

I was happy to see an advance subject pop up for her to write about also. Sometimes I feel the schools are so far removed from the issues of the world and give kids a false view of what is important. Right now we are in recession (ok, yeah they say we aren't, but does it really feel any different? Not really). Climate change, war, sustainability, economics...these are the buzz words right now. Eden has been failed by the traditional school system. So glad I moved her.

On the agenda for the garden today....more clean up, weed removal and compost pile making!