End Week 3: my garden of life

My life changed in good and bad ways ever since my grandma died. After getting over the mourning process of her being gone I had to do something fun to get my mind off of her and her death. Me and my mom decided we would take gardening classes to improve the area of dirt she has right outside of her kindergarten classroom. We both felt the need to do something good for the environment and at the same time get our minds off of all the negative we’ve recently experienced. My mom believes that a garden is a friend that you can visit anytime and I now see the resemblance. After taking hours of gardening classes we had finally felt that we were ready to construct a beautiful garden outside of her classroom for her and her kindergartners. It was a learning experience and made me and my mom grow a better bond with each other. We went to Lowe’s and chose at least the most beautiful flowers that caught our eyes. We chose flowers like roses, daisies, sun flowers, lilies, and many others. This gardening process with my mom gave me the greatest satisfaction. In my garden each flower represented a characteristic that me and mom shared. For example the rose symbolized the love that we had for our family. The sun flower symbolized the happiness that was going to come our way. The different flowers had opened up our eyes to look at life through a different perspective and both my mom and I became more open with what obstacles were thrown our way. For some reason the garden inspired us to be better people, her as a teacher and me as a student. Without this growing process that me and my mom went through I don’t think I’d look at life as positively as I do today. Believe it or not gardening changed my life. As Hans Christian Anderson always said “just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”