It’s my Birthday and I’m going to….rake a million leaves for hours.

It was supposed to snow soon, so I spent a good portion of my birthday (much to Dillon’s dismay when he got home from working that day) raking leaves.  I really really dislike raking so many leaves—mostly because we don’t own ONE tree!  I love trees and everything, but the poplars we had when moving in needed to go, and the two I planted after moving in died.  But my goodness, the wind in the fall is horrible at blowing tons of leaves into our yard.  After raking all these leaves (I think it was at least 8 big black garbage bags full) I was sure to ask Dillon to please do the rest that blew in the front yard the very next day, and the backyard.  And he did….while it was snowing and it’s a good thing too because it dumped on us!  The kids were pretty good helpers for me, though, because they got to have some fun in between stuffing leaves in the bags with me.