I had a glorious day today (and a fabulous weekend overall). Before going to breakfast with the boys this morning, I opened the door to find this greeting on the stoop:


Makes you smile, doesn't it? (Of course, it doesn't. It probably makes you want to hurl, but please play along to protect my fragile sanity, m'kay?)

Anyway, this weekend, I spent many hours in the garden as a treat to myself (c'mon, don't you find manual labor relaxing?). The flower bed on one side of our entryway needed some tidying after I unceremoniously threw some plants in that general direction last year. I dug in, and managed to finish everything except the new gravel drainage area that goes under the eaves.


I added a brownstone walkway to make it easier to weed, and moved a bunch of the plants around. For once, I really thought about plant pairings, including leaf shape, plant size and flower color. I am a landscape rock star! (Oh my. That was a terribly unexpected pun. Sorry about that. If you don't see it, please move along now. There you go.)


Crabgrass ate nearly all of this area last year, so I also laid down some cypress mulch. (It smells heavenly, but I'm going to look for a local product since we're trying to be more sustainable-minded in our purchasing habits - you know, "Save-the-planet! Cut me down some trees and shred 'em up so I don't have to weed every stinkin' day.") I hope to spend more time enjoying the garden this summer, and less time avoiding it because I can't stand the sight of all that crabgrass (It makes me feel lazy. I know that I am, and I don't need my garden to point it out to everyone who passes by.)

Tomorrow, I'll have a longer update, with news about some big changes coming up for me. (I got a job offer! I'm not taking it! I'm still "getting a job." No, I don't know what that means, either.) Hope all you moms had a lovely day! Me and my parenthetical phrases are going to bed (no, really!).