My Goliath....

I rarely share any of my personal life on here because well it's personal BUT today I took on what I consider one of the "Goliaths" in my life.

For the last year or so I have been trying to navigate life as a single Mom...most days are what I call survival--leave the house at 8:30am for work and get home between 8-9pm from kids activities...just making it through the day was my goal. Because of that so many things around my house have been neglected and my yard was one of them. And I was okay with it because I have always HATED yardwork...loathed is a better word.

But this year I got a lawn mower finally and after 2 years of really neglecting this yard I decided it was time to take on this "Goliath" of a yard...all 1/2 acre of it!

Here are a few before shots...this one was taken last year by Sydney randomly after school and really shows how over grown and huge the plants are in my flowerbeds

This is the front flower bed just a couple of weeks ago...so many plants and obviously overgrown.This is the lower flowerbed so overgrown

I did snap this before I started on this lower flowerbed. Here are a few of the after pics...after HOURS of pulling, digging, swearing, falling down, getting dirt sprayed in my face, having snails crawl all over me, and smashing too many spiders!For some reason I decided just to pull everything out and start over!
My Mom has an emaculate yard as did her Dad...there is a possiblity I may be starting to get yard obsessed like they did...

This may not seem like a big deal to most of you but for me it was HUGE!

I still have so much more work to do...especially in the backyard but now I know I can do it and that no one else is going to do it for me!

So many more projects to take on around this house....paint, grout, etc...bring it on I say...