Sweet Home Alabama. Even though neither of us grew up in Alabama, we have found a sweet home in Alabama that we can’t help but love visiting. We love it so much that we talk about going to see Maw Maw and Paw Paw in McKenzie, Alabama all the time. We talk about it so much that we convinced 3 of our dearest friends from K*bul to come and visit it with us. We warned them. You’ll go down there and have the time of you life and realize that 5 days had passed and that you hadn’t really done anything but play cards, eat Maw Maw’s amazing cooking, and visit the garden. Besides the Wednesday night pr*yer meeting at the ch*rch and the Sunday morning service that we helped lead, all we did was play cards, eat Maw Maw’s amazing cooking and visit the garden. It was my idea of heaven.
I love being outside in the garden. A garden has been one of the hardest things for me to give up while living in the place of my calling. It is soooo hard not to see the grass and smell the flowers. It’s even harder not to be able to put my hands in the ground and grow something. As Maw Maw says, “You have to give it permission to grow.” We love visiting Maw Maw and Paw Paw because they remind us of the finer things that life has to offer…good family, great food, and simple days spent talking to the flowers, the vegetables, and the Lord.
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- alabama the beautiful!
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- hydrangeas – they reminded me of the ones used in our wedding bouquets
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- I think Maw Maw said that she had this plant for 20 years. Gorgeous!
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- Over next door we found this!
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- And on the way back to the house we found him!
