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I wrote this last week...Not sure why I never published it


We have started working on gardening.  Not sure if I mentioned it but after three summers in graduate school and one being pregnant our garden has suffered.  I am ripping out the flower beds in the front and starting over.  It will be a ton of work but worth it.  We have also decided on grape vines, blueberries and some more blackberries.

I am also considering ordering a lemon tree.  It appears to do well indoors if you know what you are doing. Not sure if I can get Lee to agree but we will see.

Soccer officially starts on Tuesday which means scout weeks Jake will have something to going on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

So I gave up something which I may blog about later.  It has been a struggle for sure but it has been freeing as well.

We finally got a ceiling fan.  We  bought it Friday night and Lee installed it today.  Now on to the oven.  My parents offered to chip in on the oven.  I tried to explain to my dad that it wasn't that we didn't have the money but that we have different priorities.  We are going to the beach which took the money we would have spent on the oven.

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