Grace Filled Mama

Last Saturday afternoon was beautiful and sunny  and I had invited a friend over to visit. Originally we were going to stay inside and talk, but the weather was so beautiful that we decided to go outside and plant a few flowers that I got for Mother's Day in our garden in front of the house. Since, we purchased the house almost two years ago we really hadn't had much chance to even plant any flowers or do much of anything outside other than basic maintenance. The project was supposed to be simple. I needed to plant some flowers that I had received for Mother's Day before they met their untimely end on my windowsill above my kitchen sink. Honestly,  I only needed to plant three petunias, a pansy and a lima bean (my daughter brought home from school). The plan was to plant the flowers in the raised bed in front of the house next to the shrubs.  However, when my friend was raking the dead leaves out of the garden we  discovered landscaping fabric. I really did not want to cut