Travelingjenny

Last week, I bought the girls cheap gardening gloves at the grocery store, in anticipation of planting our vegetable garden — which we'll be able to do safely about six weeks from now. Tess wore her gloves to bed, and kept them on all night. The next morning, she asked me if we could go plant seeds. I explained that there was still too much snow for gardening, and we would have to wait for it to melt first. Tess insisted that we go outside and shovel the snow off the garden. At first, I balked at this, after all, the sun would melt it eventually. But Tess seemed so proud of her good idea, and I hated to put a damper on her enthusiasm. So out we went.

We both worked very hard, and it paid off. Just three days later, on Easter morning, the garden was almost completely free of snow. And today, I noticed garlic sprouts coming up! Of course, we still won't be able to plant anything for six more weeks, but at least by then Tess will have her gardening gloves all broken in. And after all of this work, our home-grown vegetables will taste even sweeter.