Midnights With Molly

For the last 2 years, I've had this eyesore in the backyard.  It was basically a pile of yard trash...pine cones, grass clippings, etc.  And I also had this row of strawberry plants in the midst of the trash that I desperately wanted to grow.  Strawberries are my favorite summer fruit and I would absolutely love to grow my own crop instead of paying a ridiculous price at the grocery store for home-grown berries.  So I called up my dad and we came up with with a plan for a raised garden for the strawberries (to cut down on bunnies eating the berries and to make the patch a little more manageable).  Early on Monday morning we got to work!   Dad started by building the raised garden.     Then, we added top soil... Once we got it all filled up and the rocks removed, we dug up the strawberries and planted them in their new home. Dad used the tiller and worked up all the ground around the new strawberry garden and I followed behind and raked it all til it was smooth

Do you ever find yourself in a rut?  I would imagine a lot of mommies would answer a resounding "YES!" to this question.  The day in and day out constant-ness of being a cook, maid, nurse, disciplinarian, entertainer, and all-around do-it-all person is draining and exhausting (I would imagine...of course, I don't actually know this from experience...just from hanging around all the mommies that I know and love so dearly).  But even if you're not a mommy, does the routine of this life make you feel like you're missing out on something?  Do you ever think about trying new things to take the "routine" out of summer?  Are you short on cash and long on hot summer days filled with boredom or just a lack of creativity?  In case you haven't guessed by now, I very often feel like I'm stuck in a rut.  I have absolutely no reason to feel this way.  I don't have kids and I can pretty much do whatever I want, whenever I want to.  I've been off work