Happy July

Spent the entire day inside the house. We had breakfast and I went to work cleaning the tops of the kitchen counter tops. Like other places in our house, the counter top seems to be the final resting place for many items. Nick was playing with trains and Ellie went upstairs to work in her room. Ellie came down for graph paper and a tape measure, she was wanting to move some of her furniture around. I went up and helped her measure her room and all her furniture. We graphed it all out and played with arrangements before going back up to move things around. Ellie moved all of the boxes out from under her bed and breakable items off her shelves. I brought the vacuum and broom up. We had lunch before tackling the real move.
A few hours later and Ellie's room has been rotated about 100 degrees. It looks great and it is very clean. Ellie really worked to organize all her boxes and bins. We finally got her corner shelves hung and her small, breakable items are now safe on shelves. Nick tried to help and play at the same time. We had dinner here. I had a fridge of veggies - peppers, asparagus, mushrooms & zucchini that I cooked with onion for taco filling. We had a great fruit salad with mango, strawberries, and blueberries. Apple pie for dessert. Ellie and I read for a bit before we watched the American Baking show and went up to bed.
Tuesday was Dad's birthday. Happy Birthday, Dad. The kids and I were in charge of finding and bringing dessert. We had lunch here before heading out to Mariano's. After carefully looking through the entire bakery, we decided on their signature cake (chocolate cake with cherries and cream), mini canoli, and gelato. We walked through the store to get all the samples they were offering . The kids got a scoop of gelato to go. We came home and the kids made cards for Dad. They had some time to go out to play with the neighbors. We went to Mom and Dad's for dinner. We carried in El Famous. It was a great evening.
Monday was started with grocery shopping. We went to Aldi and the produce market. We were busy bakers. Nick helped me mash bananas for bread and shred zucchini. We made 6 loaves of vegan bread - banana chocolate chip and double chocolate zucchini. We dropped a care package off to our friends with some of the bread and some other things I found helpful on my journey. We went to Half Price Books and stocked up on $1.00 movies. We were able to find a few of the movies the kids really liked to rent from the store. We went for the 3rd check in at the library. We were able to find some more battle books for Ellie and reserve a couple more titles. Rob put a coat of paint on the window, looks great.
Hasn't been a pool week because the cooler temperature. It has been an open window week - lovin' it. My garden is finally starting to look like it is July. We have a couple red tomatoes, flowers on the zucchini and cucumber plants and beans hanging. Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree