When Brandon and I moved into our house two years ago, we were extremely blessed by the previous owners. They took great care of our house and left us a beautifully landscaped front and back yard. Not having any idea about how to take care of this beautiful yard meant that I was in desperate need of some assistance from Mom. She came down for a week and showed me around the yard, pointing out various flowers and explaining how to go about caring for everything.
Until Wes was in the picture, I felt that I was doing a pretty good job of maintaining our yard. Now......not so much! The question I continuously ask myself: how on earth is it possible to be a mom AND find time to keep a clean house as well as a maintained yard. I mean seriously, it is at the very bottom of my priority list! It almost makes me sick to look outside and see the weeds taking over, but what can I do?
Reducing the amount of flower beds is one task that Brandon and I have been working to accomplish. Without completely destroying the yards charm, we are simply trying to reduce the amount of beds that will grow weeds. This will hopefully limit the amount of time spent maintaining the yard. Once we get our hospital bills paid off we are going to start saving to do some major renovations to the outside of the house in the fall, including:
1. Painting the outside of the house
2. Trying, once again, to plant grass in the backyard
3. Ripping out four huge raised boxes in the backyard and replacing with ground cover/mulch
4. Eliminating large bushes covering the front beds of the house and replacing with lower to the ground bushes/ground cover
Before:
SIMPLE--Clean :)
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