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WINNIPEG, Manitoba - I recently realized gardening is my Tupperware.

I know that does not seem to make sense, but it will to my friend and former neighbour who, despite having no free time between running a home and marriage, cooking everything from scratch, mothering a one-year-old and excelling in her accounting career, recently started a Tupperware sales business.  "I just love Tupperware so much and I want to show it to everyone else!" 

To me, she is crazy to take on one more thing that is guaranteed to take up a lot of time while turning little to no profit.  Overachievers just never seem to know when to slow down.

However, as a mother of a wonderfully sweet four-year-old daughter and a wonderfully overactive 18-month-old, I can relate to the need for a hobby to maintain one's sanity.  In the last couple years, gardening has become that for me.  Although I do not boast to always be sane or calm or any of those traits my own mother seemed to carry around so naturally when I was a kid, gardening has helped reduce the number of times I find myself crying on the bathroom floor.

This blog is meant to document some of my gardening and baby adventures, once again in the hope of seeing beyond myself and my tiny world when things become, well, fricking nuts.