Mommy and her Lemon Tree

My mom is an amazing woman, she has time to take care of a house, a husband, three kids who stay at home one of whom is a special needs and keep track of two errant daughters; who are off to one adventure after another. In addition she holds down two jobs and has enough time to garden; while i have my hands full with just being a home maker.

So the other day my sister let me in on a little secret they are on the verge of committing murder, they are thinking of chopping down the dastardly lemon tree in the garden. Which has been fruiting all season; i mean the tree just wont stop, first all the fruit was taken down and juiced and stored, next time the fruit was distributed to friends, family and even to some foes and now that no one is willing to take any more of fruit, my mom has been busy finding new ways to use lemons. A few months back this had been the case with her fig tree. There was fig jam, fig preserves, fig bread, fig pudding you name it she figged it. Now dad and the little uns are planning to hi-jack and chop down the lemon tree before everything has lemon in it. Ami had tried to sell me on the idea of bringing back lemons in my suitcase, mind you my mother is a formidable woman and disagreeing with her requires a lot of gut. Very gingerly I dissuaded her from the idea and now the last i heard she was busy finding new recipes for lemon bars to use the lemons on.

As I said my mom is an amazing women she does not give up, she never gave up on her kids and i am sure she wont give up on her lemon tree until something good comes of it and as far as dad and the kids go with their plans, I ll tell them this you can chop down as many orange trees as you want but don't you chop down that lemon tree.