A new love

Yesterday I discovered a new love.  After lunch Clay and I spent a few hours cleaning up the back yard.  I think it needed to be cleaned around the beginning of March, but better late than never!  I mowed while Clay edged (I don't do the weed eater) and cleaned up the back porch, and while he was spraying for bugs and weeds, I decided to try out the leaf hog.  We've had this thing forever, but I've never used it because it always seemed like someone needed to be changed, fed, played with, kept out of the street, etc., when it was time to use it.  But both of the kids were sleeping during this crucial time yesterday, and I fell in love.  I know you're thinking I'm crazy, but there was such satisfaction in sucking up all of those pesky leaves and having them chopped into teeny tiny bits and placed nicely in the trash bag.  My immediate family may be the only ones who know this, but I vacuum every day - usually it's the living room and/or dining room because they get the most traffic - but unless I'm sick or out of town, the vacuum cleaner runs up our electric bill every day.  The point of this is that using the leaf hog was just like vacuuming - but BETTER!  I'm still not sure why it was better, but it really was.  Unfortunately Clay reads my blog and now knows that I won't complain when he asks me to do the leaves.  Well, at least until November when the 43 trees in our yard dispense riduculous amounts of leaves - I'm sure my leaf hog honeymoon phase will be over by then!

Ethan, Rachel, Jack & Josie doing a little extra clean up this morning


Ethan helping yesterday after he dressed himself - the kid loves to match