Lettuce is coming out of our EARS

Our winter garden was a fun experiment this year. We have never grown lettuce before and yet that is probably the one veggie that we buy weekly, year-round. So we thought...why not give it a try! It has been the most awesome thing! In fact, we have been leaving lettuce on our neighbor's doorsteps and having salads everyday for the past three weeks. These are some prolific plants! You can see the greenhouse Matt made for all of our seeds off to the side. He is so handy to have around! Our seeds are busy growing and getting ready for the rows behind them! Busy and fun days of planting ahead of us!


The Reading Continues...

Book #6 of 2010 is....

Sister of My Heart

by Chitra Divakaruni

This was a book that read like a fairy tale. It was enchanting and beautiful. It takes place in India where time seems to have stood still for hundreds of years. While the mystery and intrigue of India and it's culture is fasinating, the real beauty of the book is in the relationship of the two main characters, Anju and Sudha, friends/cousins/sisters. The lines are so blurred as to what they are to each other. They grow up together and then are married off into arranged marriages and yet they are still inseperable. Love between two friends is such a precious and rare thing. They illustrate what "sisters of the heart" really are, as they explain, "because ultimately blood is not as important as love."
Those words are important to me because I have experienced first hand that love is a much better glue. I have "Sisters of MY heart" who have LOVED me, come what may, and those are the girls who I know will be there for it all. As I have grown into a woman, I realize how blessed I am for the love of true friends. This book was another one that made me cry!