🙂 This really does help keep your stained and painted pieces from getting stuck down, like they sometimes do on newspapers and they really help keep the whole work area super tidy!.

Best of all, my food borne illness paranoia that usually forces me into town to eat at restaurants, or to live off of stale muffins really didn’t have a chance to show up at all!.Oh, our poor neglected garden.Between camping trips, soccer games, baseball games and life, we just haven’t had the time to dedicate to it this year.

It looks nothing like our garden did at this time last year.. Our garden early last June.Last year, it was a thing of beauty.All full and lush and green.

With actual growing veggies, not weeds I mean.The thing is, it still ended up looking pretty much like it does now by the time the season was done.

We really did dedicate a lot of time to it last year, but we just couldn’t keep up.

We knew we’d have to do something different this year and maybe that’s why we’ve only planted just a few things so far.), and second of all it keeps little hands and minds occupied.

The result is usually fairly non-destructive.You just do the dishes and wipe down the counter (OK, and maybe the floors in some spots) and no one would know that you were just doing an “activity”..

This year, I thought I might share some of our adventures in treat making now and then..This was our first experiment with layering Jello and it was so much fun!