Accomplishments...

Sometimes you have to identify your accomplishments...the never ending sea of toys, dishes and dropped food seems overwhelming everyday...then the snow melts and sun is shining, but it uncovers the never ending sea of yard work needed...and we have neglected this yard for almost 3 years now...doing yard work is a lot easier with two almost two year old boyz, than it was with two one year old boyz...and now it is necessary since they are EVERYWHERE...my mind goes back to when we moved into this house over 9 years ago...a neighbor asked me if I was a gardner...I said, "no, not really," she told me, "you have to be a gardner, since you live on Garden Road" ...see I had never thought about being a gardner till then, my mother and grandmother were gardner's...I really only ever assisted...but I took the responsibility of living on Garden Road seriously...it also made me feel closer to the memory of my mother and grandmother to tear away brush, dig in the dirt and make it look pretty...then it became 2007...we were so busy planning for these boyz, the yard became easy to ignore...I could not take it last fall, and one day I hacked out all of the overgrown bushes and left it in a pile in the middle of the back yard...then we got busy, it got cold, snow came early...and much to Andrew's dismay, the pile remained...after Christmas, we had been out of town, then visiting with friends, then my father-in-law got sick, Andrew had started a new job and the boyz were about to start a new daycare...in a moment of my sheer panic of being overwhelmed, my sister came over while everyone else was at the hospital, we cleaned the house, took down the Christmas tree and I had Anthony drag the tree back to the pile I had already created (much to Andrew's dismay)...so today I cleaned up half of the pile and the Christmas tree...it is not completely gone, but it feels like an accomplishment...cam started out trying to assist me for while, but then moved on...ewie had no problem occupying himself...he was outside...I felt a little closer to my idol gardner's and got a little excited about being a gardner myself again!