Mother's Day

Our house was in a bit of a turmoil recently. Andy came home for a couple of months to have hernia surgery and Mark's car was on the blink for a few weeks, so I was nursing one and chauffeuring the other. Not that I'm complaining -- I enjoy being with my boys and I got to spend some good quality time with both of them. But my time went from 12 hours a day alone to zero hours a day. Sooooo, not much was going on in production with my Etsy shops.

Due to the wonderful Neil Sperry class I took in January (a Christmas gift from DH), my focus has all been on landscaping. So when DH asked what I might want for Mother's day, I immediately said TREES!

We have a few trees on our property, but only one helps to shade the house in summer. Soooo, we took my Neil Sperry list of the best trees for North Central Texas and went shopping. Initially we were just going to get one tree -- digging a hole in North Central Texas takes a pick-ax ---literally a pick ax. However, the nursery had trees on sale, so we bought 4 trees. Two Shumard Oaks and two Chinese Pistache. I am especially excited about the Chinese Pistache because they offer spring and fall color as well as shade in the summer. And since they are deciduous, the sun can shine right through and give us warmth in the winter.

On Mother's Day we planted three of the trees -- digging those holes isn't easy! Andy was still pretty knocked up from the surgery, so he sat and watched while Bob and Mark dug the holes.

We took pictures with one of the Chinese Pistaches for posterity. Hopefully we can get a picture each year. It will be interesting to look back at how each of us changes ... including the tree.

Hope your Mother's Day was wonderful. Mine was!