It is hard to believe that Baby Girl is 14 months old today! Time sure does fly after those first few months. Sometimes I wonder if I am still able to care for a tiny little baby. So much has happened, so quickly, that its starting to feel like a lifetime since Baby Girl was a wee thing. Hubs and I met this couple the other day in a restaurant who, after having fun flirting with Baby Girl, told us that they have a daughter who just turned 21 and boy how it went by all too quickly for them. So I am trying to enjoy these small moments and drink them in because before I know it Baby Girl will be in high school and she won't want to have anything to do with me.
Have you ever watched those TV Game shows where they have a couple of doors and behind one is a grand prize? Well, this weekend the hub and I found out what was behind our Door #1. The hubby and I are starting the beginning phases of landscaping our backyard. Our first step, was to clean out the area behind our garage. When we moved in, there was about 2 feet of walking space behind our garage the rest of the area was covered in vines. Vines were growing on the roof and generally it was a mess. Not wanting the vines to take over the roof, we I started to clear out the vines last fall. But after we cut a million vines with only a pair of clippers we gave up and decided to clean out the rest in the spring. Spring came around and we didn't do much until one day when I was sick a few weeks ago, I ran into our gardener. I showed him the mess and asked if he knew of anyone who could come clean it out. I could tell he was actually, quite happy for me to broach the subject of ...