Every garden needs a FROG!

Here he is my gardens frog. I made this little stone and gem pond for him. Isn't he cute. Although I've a friend who got a much nicer one for mother's day. Lucky her. I wonder will it go in the garden or will it stay in the house?
Well I've learned one thing lately, flowers do open and bloom even if the sun does not come out for days. I'm wondering if my husbands friend will ever be able to mow our lawn. It has rained every day for a long time now. I'm wondering if our summer is just going to be rain. I'm happy to report that I'm finally feeling better my voice is still not normal though. My daughter had strep throat this past weekend. I'm hoping we

are done with illness for a while. We'd done so well the past few months. The garden is beginning to produce some beautiful flowers. I try to get out and get some photo's when the rain stops. Here are some of my most recent photo's. This lily caught me quite by surprise this morning, I wasn't expecting it to be open yet.









These are iris. I planted them last fall. I always like to put something new in the garden.













My strawberry plant. I like the vibrant pink color.












And my favorite blanket flower. I think these grow out west. I'll be so happy if they do. I'm thinking I'm going have to dig up the hens and chickens and take them with me.

Yes, I think it's safe to whisper the fact that we are moving. My husband is still a little bit scared, but I feel it is the best move for us. With all I read about jobs and the economy, I'm just glad he has a good job with a growing company. I don't see it being easy to stay here. Unless he worked there and the kids and I stayed here. I don't think he would survive that. And although I have to admit the time apart has actually been very nice for me, I am beginning to miss him. I've felt kind of bad that I haven't missed him more. One of the people I work with looked at me kind of odd when I said I hadn't really begun to really miss him. But he was so stressed out the past year. He constantly talked down about himself, constantly said I deserved better than him. I was doing all the work with the kids and house, and he would just come home and sleep or mope about. It was hard to not want to hit him on the head with a frying pan ( I love repunzel in the tangled movie all the frying pan hitting that was my idea!). The time away has let me just not have to worry about him and his issues. He has been doing so well, and he is beginning to talk better about himself. (Obviously my husband never reads my blog!) And so I look forward to him coming home for a visit, and I'm starting to get the house cleaned out and organized for the move. Wish us luck and pray for us!