The Green Bag

I look out of my window and remember that it has been five years now that we have lived here. Five wonderful years. We've made a few changes in our house - and in our family. One more girl we've added in those five years. Molly was just one year old when we moved here. She wasn't able to walk yet. Vicki was just Jenni's age then and Luanne was just six. She had just finished the first year at school. And now Jenni is already 3 1/2 years. The changes in the house have been numerous. Enough to make me love it here. It's really home. Outside my window the change has been a clean up change. The first month or two or more it wasn't much of a pleasure to look out of my window. There was too much clutter, too many weeds and grass too long to mow. Now the clutter has been cleared away. Only last autumn we cut away the pretty little maple tree that was being crowded out by the two elms. But now we have a lawn of grass and just enough trees. The forsythia is slow to grow but perhaps some day it'll be so big it will have to be trimmed.