Our Bountiful Life



This year was our first attempt at having our own garden. I was so excited to be able to walk out back and pick fresh veggies for dinner whenever I needed them.  I LOVE salads and figured this summer would be a perfect time to lose some weight, so in the spring we planted 30 heads of lettuce, carrots, spinach and cucumbers.  Yummy – perfect salad fixings!!  We also had pumpkins, cantaloupe, watermelon, onions, zucchini, green and yellow beans, broccoli and corn. Phew!  The garden was a bit of an overkill for our family of four.  There was no way we were going to be able to eat all of these veggies!  But the kids had a blast helping us plant everything, and it became routine for us to all go out and check for any new sprouts.  The hubby and I would spend hours picking weeds from between the rows. Sometimes we would talk and sometimes we wouldn’t, but it didn’t matter because we were there together and working towards a common goal.  It was quality family time for all of us, and something that we all desperately needed, whether we knew it or not.

                                                                                               Here they come...

All of our veggies came up perfectly.  Although I guess I wasn’t really thinking that they were all going to come up at the same time.  Really?  30 heads of lettuce?  We couldn’t have eaten all of it before it went bad even if we were a family of rabbits.  So in the end, we ended up giving a lot of our loot away.  Whenever ANYONE came over, they had to leave with a bag of nutritional goodies.  People asked us why we didn’t have a vegetable stand, but out here in the country there is a vegetable stand practically every five feet going down the road.  And besides, it felt good to be able to give something back to the people that mattered so much to our family.  Even if you don’t have a lot, there is always something that you can do or say or give to someone else.  What a great lesson for the kids.  You don’t have to spend a ton of money to show others that you care – it’s the small things (unless you are talking about my zucchini) that matter most!

                                                            The hubby trying to carry our loot

                                                           A zucchini the size of a 2 year old!

 

 

Yummy!!



H with her pumkins