It’s officially Spring and I LOVE IT. Spring is officially my favorite season, well next to Summer, Fall and Winter… but I LOVE IT.

I love the way it smells. I love that it has longer days and more sunlight. I love that it means baseball and softball! I love that it looks like planting gardens and freshly cut grass. I’m here for all of it.

And this is the year that I’m going to keep a garden alive during the hot summer days that we all know are just around the corner.

You see, every year I plant a ton of spring flowers, veggies, and herbs. I get super excited to play in the dirt and get my hands dirty. I love how it looks when I’m done and I love seeing seeds start to sprout and flowers start to bloom.

And yet, every summer, my beautiful garden starts to wilt and wither. My flower petals turn brown when they should have been deadheaded weeks before and my beautiful tomatoes burst in the sun from not being picked on time.

I get busy, I get distracted and I don’t follow through on what I’ve planted.

And as much as this is true in my spring/summer garden, it also can be true in love.

You can get busy in love.
You can get distracted by other demands.
You can forget to follow through on the expectations that you’ve set.

You can forget to tend to your own relationship… and things start to wilt and wither between the two of you.

And I don’t want that for the two of you! A relationship left untended is not going to thrive.

My encouragement is to…

Water your own garden.

Take the time to tend to each other’s needs. To prune away what no longer serves you and celebrate the success of fresh blossoms.

You got this!!

Until next week,

-A

P.S. If you’re having a hard time nurturing your relationship, please reach out. I don’t want the two of you to stay in drought and dust for a moment longer.