Just Planting Daisies

My favorite flower has always been the daisy. Although we are totally out of season for that, the point of this post is always in season, because it is about L.I.F.E.

I had planned it out perfectly… from the dress, to the decor, to the flowers in the bouquets. Daisies of course!

I had forgone my vegetable garden I had been tending to for several years prior to planting the daisies I would use in the bouquets for my wedding.

After weeks of tending, weeding, and watering the Daisy garden, they were starting to peek out from the soil and spring up as the sunny and rainy days passed by.

Growing taller, and starting to give off a familiar look and smell, I was so proud and showed my fiancé. To my dismay, he stated a fact that had somehow escaped me in all my hard work and excitement. “Those look a lot like tomato plants.” He insisted. But, I insisted he was wrong and they would be blooming the most beautiful daisy bloosoms soon enough. Just in time for our June wedding.

The days and weeks went by and the tending, watering, and weeding continued. But something was odd. Something was off, and the smell of those daisies was a very familiar smell, however, I was unable to put my finger on it. Then it hit me!

The year before I had a large amount of cherry tomatoes that I shared with the entire neighborhood in my garden. Unbeknownst to me, as I happily tilled up my garden that spring to be planted in daisies, I was somehow broadcasting those cherry tomato seeds all about the garden! My fiancé was right! These were not daisies growing in my garden. I had a garden full of cherry tomato plants!

I was devastated! All of that work, all of that tending, all of that love, sweat, and then came the tears!

Isn’t that just like life? When you want daisies, life gives you cherry tomatoes!

Ever since then, I have been planting daisies (not actual daisies, but the daisies of life) but it seems someone or something is always right behind me digging up that which I am planting.

Do you ever feel that way? If so, I want to invite you on a journey with me filled with life lessons, God given inspirations, mother hood, wife hood, farm life, homeschool life, brutal honesty, hard truths, practical tips, cleaning tricks, green living, & anything else that comes my way lol. Nothing is off limits! Life has a way of throwing curveballs and well, I’M HERE FOR IT! Are you with me?

~Mandy Anderson