It starts...

I was sitting in the waiting room at the children's hospital a LONG time ago... I'm going to guess 4 years ago when I read an article about tomatoes. These were not your *big food chain* tomatoes. They were every kind of heirloom tomatoes. I WAS IN LOVE! I am pretty sure little cherubs came down and flew around my head. But we were renting at the time and had a shared yard and blabbity-blah-blah.

Cut to last Nov. and me buying a house (well, really my husband is buying it since I earn NO money, but you get the whole *we are one* concept, right?). I told him there WOULD be a garden. Yeah, I'm bossy like that. So, he asked how big. I told him the length of the backyard. Our backyard is almost 60' long. We were planning to come 8' into the yard with the garden since the fences we are all bound by HOA law to use are in 8' segments. After I picked his jaw up and handed it to him, he asked if I was really sure. I said I was REALLY sure. It ended up being 464 sq ft of garden. I was ELATED. And then I think I peed my pants a little. I knew NOTHING about gardening. Okay, so that's a lie. My dad is the Maharaja of gardening and we generally had a garden when I was growing up unless circumstance just didn't allow. But now, I was on my own. Still, something inside me was swelling with joy and I could not help but browse the great wide interweb looking for what great and marvelous tomatoe varieties I would be purchasing come spring!

Cut to now. It is in. It is planted! I have had help from the All Mighty Maharaja and for that I am grateful! But I have also planted on my own! How miraculous and wonderful to be the creator of something. And how marvelous to sit back and watch as the sprouts start to come up, just as God intended for them to! It really is a miracle, gardening. And if you don't believe I believe that, let me use some form of the word miraculous again... TRULY A MIRACULOUS MIRACLE!