When my daughter was just a teeny, tiny baby, I made up this crazy song each that I would sing to her as we exited the bath tub and wiped down the excess water. I named it the "Naked Baby" song. Now two and a half years later, I still sing the song (I can't believe I remember the lyrics) each and every night but now my little girl sings it with me. It is completely bewildering that she learned the song and has come to expect it. It's moments like those that I cherish. Just like my going to bed song. Although, these days its harder to get her to go to sleep but for the one minute I sing that song to her all cradled up in my arms its just pure joy for 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 ...
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