A lawnmower-eat-tree world
My grandmother had 12 children.
My mother had three children. (I was the middle child. Gah!)
I have one child, and if I'm lucky, I'll have at least one more.
But nearby I noticed a mother with hundreds of children.
Behold the baby forest in my backyard:
A cricket's eye-view
My husband hasn't felt the need to mow in, oh, about a month. But now that it's been warm and sunny and things are growing at a faster rate -- and acorns have had a chance to sprout -- the massive oak tree in our yard is surrounded by her little ones. Some of these little suckers are a foot and a half tall! They have roots like superglue. And the mass of them are crowding one another so bad that they would never make it in a real forest. I guess they don't haven't learned yet that it's a tree-eat-tree world ... or in our case, it will be a lawnmower-eat-tree world.
The proud mother live oak
Time to fire up the engine....
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Oh, and the water park reviews are on hiatus for a while. I know, I can hear the whole blogosphere moaning in disappointment. My husband and I took the wee one to Calypso Cove in Margate over the weekend (it's open only during the weekend until school lets out) -- which I loved -- but again, my son wasn't interested. I'm giving it a rest for a little while.
My mother had three children. (I was the middle child. Gah!)
I have one child, and if I'm lucky, I'll have at least one more.
But nearby I noticed a mother with hundreds of children.
Behold the baby forest in my backyard:
A cricket's eye-view
My husband hasn't felt the need to mow in, oh, about a month. But now that it's been warm and sunny and things are growing at a faster rate -- and acorns have had a chance to sprout -- the massive oak tree in our yard is surrounded by her little ones. Some of these little suckers are a foot and a half tall! They have roots like superglue. And the mass of them are crowding one another so bad that they would never make it in a real forest. I guess they don't haven't learned yet that it's a tree-eat-tree world ... or in our case, it will be a lawnmower-eat-tree world.
The proud mother live oak
Time to fire up the engine....
- - - - -
Oh, and the water park reviews are on hiatus for a while. I know, I can hear the whole blogosphere moaning in disappointment. My husband and I took the wee one to Calypso Cove in Margate over the weekend (it's open only during the weekend until school lets out) -- which I loved -- but again, my son wasn't interested. I'm giving it a rest for a little while.
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posted by Holly at Tropic of Mom at 4:21 PM
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3 Comments:
Loved the analogy. My mom has 12 siblings, I had 5 and I'll decrease the trend even more myself too! :)
12 children! I can't even begin to imagine spending the better part of 12 YEARS being pregnant.
Ick.
12 children?!?! Oy...somedays, I'm not sure if I can deal with the 1 have :(
I HATE those tree suckers! They are such a pain and are so tough to get rid of :( We have a mini forest too that we need to take down.
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