We planted our potatoes this week. I was worried because we didn’t use “seed” potatoes. K insisted that organic potatoes would do just fine. Of course she’s right: who’s going to argue potatoes with a Pole?

We’re growing them in large gardening buckets, with little to no soil. We’re using mulch from leaves, compost, and more mulch/leaves on top. Will it work? We’ll find out shortly.

L insisted on helping. “I do it!” is her motto of late, and we’re certainly encouraging that helpful nature. Earlier this week, she helped make a salad, mixing the ingredients for the sauce ever-so-carefully.

Yet there are some things she’ll be too small to do for quite some time.

By the time she’s big enough to do this kind of work, she’ll have her own list of chores.

How will we ever get her to do chores? Choice seems to be promising: like most people, L responds best to requests when given a choice. It’s something that works wonders in the classroom as well.