This morning the kids and I went to Lowe's to pick up Jon's Father's Day present. While there, I decided to pick up some flowers for our planters as well... and potting soil, garden soil, a couple clay pots for indoor plants... yeah, more than I intended to purchase.

Why I felt that today would be a good day to plant flowers, I may never know. I tend to get myself into impulsive situations such as this. With my eye being as it's been this week, I've got none of the work I intended to get done this week (i.e. cleaning, laundry, etc.), but felt the need to plant flowers.

We had fun though. And we've now got 6 planters full of impatiens. Hopefully the intense sun you see in the photo is short lived. The planters are on our front entry way, and being under all the trees, we really don't get much sun there or anywhere in the yard.

I called the post "Impatient Impatiens" because.... have you ever tried to plant flowers with a 2 and 4 year old!? I'm not sure which of us was more impatient! The flowers are lucky to have made it safely out of their store pots -- the kids wanted to just grab and pull them out. Filling the planters with garden dirt resulted in nearly as much on the ground as in the planters -- and easily as much on their knees, face, hands, and hair. Of course... the second they were covered in dirt, their eyes itched! Dominic was creative enough to use his sand shovel to itch his head.

But after all was said and done, we've got 6 planters with 6 impatiens in each pot. The kids helped (Amara carried the entire bag of potting soil from the van to the front stoop!), I don't think anything died in the process, dirt in the eyes was pretty much avoided, it all washes off, and they're sleeping soundly.

And yes... I did let Amara go out in public like that! She had sweat pants on, and I made her change. So she's sporting a tie-dyed t-shirt, bright orange skort, lime green necklace, purple crocs, and a rhinestone tiara! Dominic on the other hand, all he wanted was his pirate shirt (i.e. skull and cross bones). You think our kids have the stereotypes locked up?