: About Me

I am a 24 year old stay at home mom. I have always enjoyed writing and am thrilled to have found a way to exercise my writing muscles. I left my job as a gymnastics instructor after the birth of my daugter in May of 2009 and relocated with my husband to Northern California. Here I can enjoy many of my passions, gardening, caring for animals, writing and most importantly spending time with my family. I am working on research for a book which hopefully will be underway this winter. Thank you for your interest and keep reading, the best is yet to come.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My great, true, personal garden story

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The Great Outdoor Battle began in 2006. It was the first really warm day of May and I was itching to get outdoors. My yard wasn't too bad, I just had a planter or two full of weeds that needed to be dug out and flowers put in. I live in Seattle so I dusted off my Northwest Gardeners Almanac and started picking flowers that would thrive in our climate. I carefully mapped out my semi-circle planter, from the tallest plants in back down to the White Allysum border around the front. Now that I had a plan I needed to get outfitted. I had nothing, no gloves, hat, appropriate gardening shoes or t...

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