I married the most incredible guy in the world over a decade ago, and we have five adorable (when they're sleeping) children, ages nine to new. Yes, we are done. Yes, we do sleep. No, none of them were accidents, and yes, I would absolutely do it all over again!

Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) Good-bye: True gardening stories relating to love, life and gardening

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My grandfather had the most impressive garden a kid could ever lay eyes on. He would spend hours out there in the blistering sun, cultivating life from the relentless earth, which was sometimes like pavement and other times a soupy, soggy mess. We still joke that he spent his days out there to stay away from my grandma, but I think the truth was that his garden was a song they danced to, and, after decades of marriage, they seemed to know the words by heart.

My grandfather would spend the last days of winter searching for the first signs of spring. When the ground grew damp with thaw,...

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