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Rainbow Kid Garden

I am a BIG gardener!!!! I love it. It is my therapy. There is just something about being outside and digging in the dirt that makes me feel better. Calm. Relaxed. The fact that you can plant a tiny seed and it grows to be a plant that produces food will never cease to amaze me. It is a miracle. My boys love our big garden. They always say it is like grocery shopping in our back yard. They love to help so this year I thought it would be fun if I dedicated one section of the garden for a kid garden. Then I had the idea as I was looking through seed magazines that it would be even better to have a rainbow garden!!!! I know my boys are going to get a kick out of growing things like carrots and having them be colors that are not common. Here are some of the things we will be growing this year:

Red, yellow, and purple tomatoes, rainbow mix carrots, black radishes, blue potatoes, and colored cauloflower. I forgot to add a picture for these but we are also growing purple and yellow string beans :)

Here are other posts about our rainbow garden:

Garden signs

Purple french fries

Rainbow Bread

So I went to get my kids ready for school (which thanks to Mr. Day Light Savings Time it has been rough to say the least) and my second son asked “Mom, why are you talking to us in a grumpy voice?” Yep. That was the wake up call I needed to realize that my kids have been getting the short end of the stick. While I have been working on my “project” night and day, they have been getting the “leftover” me. The tired, and yes, grumpy me. So I decided to make a surprise while the 2 oldest were at school. I made rainbow bread!

My boys are OBSESSED with St. Patrick’s Day. I don’t get it to be honest. But they love it. I haven’t decorated. I didn’t make them a green breakfast, I didn’t even wear green today. So they were happy to come home and get a St. Patty’s Day surprise from me :) I separated the dough into 6 balls. The my 4 year old an I worked the food coloring into it by squishing it. It took awhile but it was like playing with clay so it entertained him the whole time. Then I rolled each color flat and stacked them up. The I rolled it up so it looked like a loaf of bread and stuck it in the bread pan to rise again.

See, I told you. Obsessed. This is how they went to school! They hate posing for things like this by the way. They are always like “Mom, why can’t we just eat it???”