Our Garden

In honor of April, we planted a flower garden by our front door this week.

We live on a block of cement. There is a narrow strip of grass on the other side of the building, but the rest is straight up cement. We could drive up to our front door if there wasn’t one of those parking poles in the way marking where the driveway ends. So obviously we had to get creative with our spring planting.

Rose kept gathering up all the chalk and toddling off with it.

I didn’t realize that sidewalk chalk would be this messy. I need to just let go and accept the fact that kids are messy. I can usually manage that until said children come over to me and grab my pants with their messiness and wipe their faces on my clothes. Then I put the chalk away.

This picture doesn’t do justice to the chalkiness of his pants. After I put the chalk away, we went over to the strip of grass and played in it. I laid in the grass and gazed around house eves up at the blue sky and drank in the spring sunshine with most of my senses, keeping bits of nature out of Rose’s mouth with the rest. Vitamin D really does do a body good.