I posted several years ago how I hated my mother telling me “I don’t know how you do it” when I described my life as a working mom. And how I vowed I would never say to my children “I don’t know how you do it.” But I am now […]
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Working in My Mother’s Garden
I wrote last week that I am not an outdoorsy person. Perhaps that’s because some of my early experiences outdoors were unpleasant. I remember many unsavory tasks in my mother’s garden during my childhood summers. Mother had a few flower beds around the house that we moved into when I […]
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Confession: I Kill Plants
One of the downsides of listing our house for sale has been the need to keep it beautiful. Our realtor has been very helpful in staging each room to show it as advantageously as possible, but the items she has used make it feel like it isn’t our home. Brand […]
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