I Will Survive!

Yesterday was kind of a hard day...it was busy, I was stressin about money, its been shmooie around here for a little too long....I dunno, I was just having a slightly obnoxious day. So, after teaching Jason's art class, I left the school feeling overwhelmed and ready to do the minimum expected work for a while. So, I went and got Kinsey from preschool, put the kids down for a nap and then went and vegged for a while and fell asleep. I woke up about an hour and a half later to Jason coming in from work, I snuck out and went outside to work on the yard. I had been needing to plant my spring bulbs for weeks and have actually HAD the bulbs since September. But, now is the perfect time to plant them, if you can stand the chill outside. So, I got out all my tools, cut open the bags of topsoil I bought the other day and got to work! So, from about 4:45 to 6:30 pm, I just worked and worked and planted all my spring bulbs! Now, you don't understand....the flowerbed that I was working in was literally like organic cement...its a mix of clay and sand and its unbelievably hard....but I cracked through it all and incorporated my topsoil into it, and VOILA!
A flower bed that is decent enough to put $35 worth of spring bulbs in! The whole time I was working at it, I just kept thinking how hard last winter was with a new baby and RSV and Pneumonia and being cooped up inside feeding my child every hour and a half! I was also thinking about how much easier this winter will be with no newborn and that I will have crocus literally coming up out of the snow to cheer me up in early March! So, I planted my bulbs in a fun pattern......you'll want to check back in March to see a picture of the bulbs coming up in all their glory! I came in just as it was flurrying and getting dark to a houseful of happy people...Jason included! I just couldn't stop talking about how excited I was for the flowers to bloom all by themselves just in time to save my sanity! I felt like a new woman! I don't know if it was the alone time, the feeling that I'm creating something, (do you remember Elder Uchdorf's talk at the last Relief Society Broadcast?), or that I really love flowers and gardening, but I'm so glad I have something to look forward to! Jason says he thinks I'm an elf or a wood gnome or something, because I always love to go dig around in dirt. Its very therapeutic for me for some reason! So, here are some pictures of the actual kinds of bulbs that I planted from the bulb website so that you can get excited too! Go plant some spring bulbs, people! A little work now will give you a big surprise after the cold winter ahead of us!