Awesome Sunday...

Yesterday was an awesome day. We have so much to be thankful for and we take those things for granted, most of the time.

The garden is growing and we are regularly picking fresh veggies. I always did love a garden. As a young child abandoned, it required placement in a Children's Home in Orangeburg, SC (Brookland Plantation Home For Boys), we were required to work in the gardens to help feed us. I never thought that it would carry on into adulthood. I suppose those early lessons in gardening paid off in more than just filling our bellies.

We had a rotary phone stored in the basement of our home near some vinyl records. During one of our excursions to the basement Brooke asked me what they were. My reply was "you are kidding me right!?" While we no longer used those items, (reason for storage in basement) they had value to us and Brooke made a believer out of me that she had no idea. Oh, how times have changed!

I used to hear as a child that "we didn't have this" and "we didn't have that", "as we were growing up". I am grateful to have had those things and that things have changed. I am so very grateful that I had the lessons such as growing a garden as those lessons are paying off in more ways than one.

I wonder what things Matthew and Brooke will grow with and what valuable lessons they will learn. I wonder what lessons they have learned. I know that vinyl records and rotary phones are a mystery. While I had a garden or two when Matthew was a toddler, I doubt he would remember it and Brooke had not been born. Brooke on the other hand would remember one of our gardens as we maintained one or two during her visits with us.
I can't imagine either of the children have an idea of how to grow a garden. I can't but imagine the lessons that they have learned.