While looking at my garden I realize how much it and my life are a lot alike. Both weedy and out of control.
At this moment in my life I find myself being mom and grandma (nanny) at the same time. We have three kids (four really, wish we could see him more). One grown, one in college, and one a senior in high school. We also have two grandchildren that stay with me most days and some nights depending on schedules. So some days can be quite overwhelming with all the things that need cleaned up, pulled up, sprayed, and replanted.
But if I stop focusing on my weedy, out of control garden, and look out just a little, I see my flowers growing under a row of bird houses and they are starting to bloom. Plus when the wind is blowing I get a big refreshing smell of the mint I have growing nearby.
My kids and grandkids are like those flowers, and my life like that mint. I love watching them all grow and bloom. Each phase, and each accomplishment in their lives is beautiful and refreshing, sometimes emotionally overwhelming too.
I see all of this as good, because no matter how weedy and out of control my garden and my life are right now, there is beauty in the things growing around me and I would not change any of it.
