Rose Pedals

This is me making potpourri with the roses my dad gave my mom for Valentines Day. Making potpourri is a good way to use roses because you can make sachets with the dried roses. I think there are different ways to make potpourri. Like making it with different kinds of flowers. We have not done that yet but I am excited to try.

I Love Baking Bread

I love baking bread because when I stir it, it makes my hands stronger. I like the feeling of kneading the bread. I like the smell when it first comes out of the oven.

What should I plant?

This year my mom is letting me have my very own garden. I have been planning what I am going to plant. In the garden box my mom gave me I am going to plant parsley, peppermint, and carrots.

My dad is letting me have some land to plant corn, pumpkins and potatoes. I know its going to be a lot of work because it is a little ways away from the house so I will have to carry my buckets of water every day and night during the summer.

I have been reading a garden book called "The Vegetable Gardeners Bible." I like how the book tells you how to take care of your garden easily. The book is easy to read and has good pictures.

For carrots it says that if you want to grow good you should thin them out and not put them too close together or they will curl around each other. That is what happened to us 2 years ago.

When I plant my sweet corn I learned that I shouldn't peek at them to see if they are ready to be picked. Instead of peeking at them you should wait until the silk is brown and dry.

I am real excited about planting potatoes because we have never done that before. The book says there are different kinds of potatoes, a rainbow of potatoes. Right now I am trying to figure out what kind I should grow.

"Cooking Fun"

I like cooking because it's really active and it makes people happy. When I make people happy it makes me happy and I want to do more. My favorite things to cook are pie crust cookies, rice and meat balls, orange chicken, and oatmeal.

One of my dreams is to be a really good cook and some day have a restaurant. I want everyone that works with me to be a good Christian and friends too. There are lots of things that help you cook like my mom, she taught me that if I don't read the instructions all the way through it's either the worst meal or the best. I usually find it turns out to be the worst.

Yesterday I put red hot candies in the cup cakes instead of sprinkles and they tasted spicy.