Chapter 225

• Saving my mom's marriage
• I came home one day a few hours earlier than I normally would and was pleased to see my mother’s car in the driveway. Usually she’d come home about an hour after I would and It was nice I wouldn’t be alone all afternoon. Mom always made tea with cookies and she’d let me help her in the garden.
• I loved working in the garden, watering the plants and the flowers. I had my own little piece of the garden where I grew my own flowers, although they almost always died because mom said I gave them too much water. Mom would always help me and always had new flowers for me from her own garden. She says that one day I’ll get the hang of it and I’ll have the most beautiful flower garden of the world. Although sometimes she suggests I should be planting water lilies instead.