By Denise Bell
Why didn’t I think of this sooner? Last spring we planted our first garden. I have wanted to plant one for years and decided that I had better get to it before the kids were all grown up, gone, and I had no help. So we did. We planted corn, peas, carrots, all the usual plants as well as sunflowers, (I love sunflowers), and pumpkins. I decided that it would be so much fun to give all the neighbor kids pumpkins to put on their porch for Halloween so we planted lots of pumpkins. They grew and grew and overtook the garden. I have a little corn, a few peas, and lots and lots of pumpkins. This makes me smile.
As we began to harvest our little garden I began to see scrapbook pages form in my mind, and then I realized I should have taken pictures from the very beginning. Why didn’t I think of this sooner? It would have been so cute to have pictures of my eight year old daughter digging in the mud and planting seeds. My fourteen and ten year old sons trying their best to hold on to the rotor tiller, and my twelve year old daughters face when her brother threw a worm in her all too perfect for gardening hair.
I guess I will just settle for the cute picture of the eight year old holding the sunflower up to her face, the ten year old picking a summer squash, the fourteen year old trying to make his way through the corn stalks, and the twelve year old standing in the bathroom ignoring the garden altogether.
You probably guessed it by now — that next time I will try to get pictures of the whole process! I’ve decided that I won’t wait until next spring to start! I will try to catch the whole process at other times too. All the wonderful life events that are coming up like carving faces in those Pumpkins we planted, raking up the Fall leaves, baking Christmas cookies, and so many more events will be great for scrapbooking but could be even more meaningful if I caught the whole process and not just the end results!
Hope in your digital scrapbooking projects that you can capture the journey of life and not just the destination!
Denise
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