Circle of Life

Here are some things that are growing around here.
And don't tell Jim. He prefers just greenery with no flowers, and yet somehow we sneak them in...

And the children, of course, are growing like weeds. Or maybe like flowers.

Things that are broken around here:

* Our wooden privacy fence. It's hanging on by a thread. Or a toothpick. With all the wind, it's taking weeks to get a date for them to fix it.

* Our water heater, and various other household plumbing issues. I hate.love.hate plumbing.

* The gas tank on the van. Now it takes two people to shut the door. One to push the "open" button on the driver's door and one to physically push it shut. The kids think it's fun.

* A random, hideously shrieking belt on the van. It only happens when it is most embarrassing, and they say the belts are all tight.

* The wallpaper border in Liam's room. Completely falling off.

*One lightbulb after another. They always seem to go at the same time, don't they?

*The backup sensor on the van. Jim didn't tell me that he had turned it to Off a while back (ahem...he is SO lucky I haven't backed into something because I have been assuming that it will beep before I hit something!). Now of course, the button won't work to it back ON.

*The automatic rear door lifter mechanism on the van. For quite a while now I've had to pull hard when it starts to open or else it will shut.

*My good vacuum. Dang.

*My laptop is also hanging on by a thread after I dropped it..hard..on Friday the 13th.

*Come to find out, when I plugged in the external hard drive to try and back up my laptop before it totally gives out - the external hard drive is also gone.

I think things are falling apart around me about as fast as they are growing up around me.