embracing chaos

After the orderly book reviews, today I am embracing chaos! This blog is for Diane, who has been cleaning instead of playing with her kids...I'm not immune to this so I am proposing that Diane and I embrace the chaos together, let go of control and enjoy the madness that families bring! My madness is combined with digging holes, mud and gardening....

We are hoping to plant four trees in our garden soon. It's been raining a lot over the last few weeks, so the soil conditions should be perfect, we have a day off today for the festival of Santa Faz so we are digging! I'm expecting that digging will involve two sweaty parents and two muddy children thrpwong rocks around the garden. Am looking forward to getting the trees in, but it's the hard work first, will update later on holes and trees and how it all looks. In the meantime, I have been dancing on the carpet to loud music with my children, in preparation for the chaos ahead...

This is what the garden looks like at the moment...

The yellow ball marks roughly where we are hoping to plant a lemon tree (roughly because my daughter kicked it a few moments before the photo was taken!)

In the foreground is a small bucket next to a very small, young olive. As the olive will take years to grow we are transplanting it to another part of the garden and replacing it with a larger lime tree. In the left of the picture, close to the wall there are the remnants of a small fire, that's where we're putting the almond tree.

The small palm in the foreground will also take years to grow, so we're putting the orange tree here and transplanting the palm to the top of the garden and surrounding it with succulents.....

Ok, need to go now as husband has commenced digging and I am blogging instead of helping...let the chaos begin.