[Gemara D'Jessica]

In chronological order:

[1] Got some zebra grey sidewalk surfers for Mother’s Day.

[2] Picked weeds with Asher. That boy is definitely going to work outdoors one day. He was a machine! I have never seen him pay attention so well and for so long before!

[3] Watched Asher and Kovi play with blocks together. Asher said they were “eating lunch”. 

[4] Doing week 1/day 1 of Couch to 5k (again) with Corey. 

[5] Watching Doctor Who with Corey. 

[1] Clean the den/playroom. Every other room in the house is clean!!!!! [Monday]

[2] Clean the van. [Tuesday]

[3] Buy all the fresh produce to make food for Pesach. [Monday or Tuesday]

[4] Plant the seeds (indoors) for our garden already! [Wednesday, Thursday or Friday]

[5] Make a matza cover with Asher. [Wednesday]

[6] Make a seder plater for Asher with Asher. [Wednesday or Thursday]

[7] Tovel new pots, etc. [Monday]

[8] Cook for Pesach!!!!!! [All week long or however long it takes]

I accomplished 4/5 things that I wanted to last week. My exercise is hardly where it needs to be. I ran once and walked a lot, but that was it. With it being so warm, I wanted to spend as much time outside with the boys as possible. I really need to hook up that bike trailer and buy a helmet for Kovi. Then it will be easy peasy to get my daily exercise in. Anyway, here’s this weeks list.

[1] Set up the bike trailer. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get Kovi a helmet this week since it’s not always so easy going places with the boys to try things on by myself. But at least it will be a start in the right direction.

[2] Exercise! More specifically, running three times a week again, push ups, core and hip strengthening exercises. 

[3] Clean the upstairs for Pesach. If the basement is any indication, the upstairs will go nice and smoothly. 

[4] Make tropical lemon cranberry coconut chia bars and healthy strawberry oat squares with homemade jam. Want to get rid of as much chametz as possible in the next couple of weeks. Figure these are some yummy, relatively healthy-ish snacks that the boys (and myself) might enjoy. 

[5] Start planting seeds indoors for the garden. With it being so warm lately, I was tempted to start the seeds outdoors, but this is Cleveland. It can be 72 in the morning and -10 by late afternoon. Not going to take the chance. I have a list of what to start when and I know there’s at least one of the seeds that needs to be planted indoors in March. I also bought Asher a little herb garden starter kit so I’ll have him start that with me. 

This will be my first year with a real - as in, not on a balcony - garden. I plan on going all out. I found this site that explains when to start planting, etc in your area and looked through that to get an idea of what I could plant without driving myself crazy. I didn’t want to be planting everything at the same time and this site really helped me to figure out a schedule. Hopefully it’s accurate! Anyway, here’s what I plan on putting in the garden this year: http://pinterest.com/photojessa/garden-this-year/