"IRONIC"

I really wish blogs had scratch n' sniff so i could let you smell my most favorite smell ever!

Tonight i cut my first lawn of the season..and loved every second of it! the smell i love most of all is fresh cut grass, of gas, of oil, and just dirt. I love being outside, i love work, i love being in my own world with my ipod in and my music way too loud with my own thoughts for at least an hour after a crazy day. But most, most ,most of all i love the company i am in while doing it! Now to most people this "chore" sucks ..and they dread it.. which i do to! especially when i am cutting my own lawn but there is something far more enjoyable about cutting other people's lawn than my own. For almost 12 years now i have been cutting my grandparents lawn, yep that's right since i was 13 years old. Now i won't lie .. i have not always loved mowing my grandparents lawn, for instance: when i couldn't drive and had to ride my bike or walk down to her house and back..UP HILL!! when i had to wait and wait and WAIT to get picked up if i didn't want to walk home, when i had to rake huge mound after mound of leafs in the fall that seemed to never end, and moushy buckets full of moldy apricots and apples that stunk, when i had to rip up the garden and most off all the tomato plants that would make my arms itch so bad i would roll in the grass and spray myself down with the hose trying to get whatever it was that was eating my skin off me!!! those days i could probably say sucked or so i thought at the time. My grandparents are amazing people, and by amazing i mean...AMAZING! And i don't think they will EVER know how much i love their stinking guts but what i do know is now that i have been cutting their lawn for almost 13 years i have gained far far more than just dang good lawn mowing skills!!! I have gained two best friends that are three times my age, free dinners made with love,mugs of water left out just for me, a place to take a nap, long talks, vegetables from a garden i helped plant, lessons on how to do more things than i could ever list, a love for service that i never knew would make me so happy, left overs, notes, dessert before dinner, a "savings account in a jar" that sent me on many exciting trips, lessons that are priceless taught to me by my gramps who IS the hardest working man alive, and a best friend in a grandma that i wouldn't even EVER change for the world. I can't express to you the way i feel every time i leave that house. I feel accomplished, confident, take care of, send home with far far far too many things to eat, but most of all completely and utterly LOVED! and i know when say this no one believes me but my Grandma really is my best friend, she really is the only one that knows me more than myself, that she get's me and what makes me smile, she makes me want to be better, to give 100 % of myself to others..like she does for me, she is my friend,my teacher,my grandma,my 2nd mom, my ear to listen, and the one place i know i can ALWAYS go... now who can say that about their garndma? I love love love my grandparents so so so very much and feel so blessed and thankful to have the relationship i have with them that is un-matched! I can only imagine what my children will think of these wonderful people and can only hope that my kids will be old enough to not only meet but to know their wonderful Great Grandparents. I hope they both

know that mowing their lawn is not a "chore" any longer it is a privilege to be able to spend as much time with them as i do, to be there for my every bec n' call, and for giving every single ounce of their energy and love to their family. For this little "chore" i do for them they have done a HUGE "Chore" for me!!! This is one Lesson i will never forget and it all was learned from a job i used to dread! ....Ironic.