Report Card

I had to take Camille back to the doctor today since she was so hot and out of sorts I knew the antibiotics couldn't possibly be working (they weren't). She's been sick for 2 weeks -- off and on, but more on than off. 

 

After the trip to the doctor, this is what the rest of our day looked like.
They don't know what's wrong, possibly a "mystery virus."

While I give myself a "D" in Health, I think I've earned a B+ in Botany. My garden is looking great and my next wave of plants is starting to sprout. I would have given myself an "A" except I didn't label my pots so I'm guessing at what is growing based on leaf shape and what I think I remember planting.

Meanwhile, the cherry tomatoes are going crazy

and I have 7 eggplants on one bush.

These are my favorite cherry tomatoes -- a little larger than the other ones and they have a bit more acid to them. More of a bite and a little less sweet.  

Mint is spilling over the edge of the pot on the pillar and my big basil bush is in the brown and green ceramic pot in background on the left. I didn't do much for tying up the tomatoes so they are spilling all over. I'll have to figure out a way to cage them next year. 

And the final grades of the day are for Carter, who brought home his first semester report card declaring, "I did awesome. I only got one 'C' this time." He also pointed out that he went from a C- to a C+ which, he explained, was even more impressive. 

He did not get his laissez faire attitude toward school from me or his dad and God bless him for it. He has a wonderfully fine-tuned sense of cost/benefit and in his world, mostly As and Bs are good enough. I wish it had been in mine. Since he appears to have dodged the bullet known as Mom's neurotic tendencies, I'd say he's going to get an 'A' in Life.