I had a wonderful conversation with my sister the other evening. (My amazing sister who homeschools her three kids, holds a full-time job and whose husband is currently deployed for nine or ten months. Truly an amazing, inspiring person in my life.) Anyway, I was talking about how the blog world is so inaccurate and really doesn't show what life is really like for us. The reality is, I was saying to Sis, that I share lots of our five-to-ten minute activities, but don't talk much about the other eight or nine hours of our day. The other day, for example, we went to the playground and spent a long time lying under the tree watching the birds. We saw
galahs, Murray Magpies, honey eaters (middle picture) and Port Lincoln ring-necked parrots (last picture). It was relaxing and
fun just hanging out. And then we had a lot of fun having races around the very large park.
The reality of life is more like that, hanging out together as a family, with large doses of playing, looking at critters, learning vicariously, reading, growing, running, and living life.
Grandpa takes professional quality bird photos, so I'm a bit embarrassed to include these, but here you go anyway!
We had the quickest results with the seedlings in the window. 
Overall, we had a lot to talk about because the seeds on the kitchen table started to sprout -- and then died when they weren't kept moist (we went camping this weekend). And the seeds at the bottom of the bags in the window didn't sprout because they were submerged in water. That led to some good talks about what conditions seeds need to grow and how floods and drought affect crops, etc.
