Like a kid on Christmas morning.

This has been a pretty eventful week, but hands down, no questions asked, the most exciting thing that happened to me this week was the harvest of my first vegetable. Those of you who know me well and know the details of the sordid affairs of the last week of my life may ask, “But Liz! Even more exciting than (fill in the blank)?”

Yes.

More exciting.

Not because anything wasn’t exciting, but because I am a giant dork and this is the first thing I have ever grown all on my own and then eaten. I MADE FOOD! Not just cooked food or prepared food – I MADE IT! I gave birth to a lemon cucumber! Just look at it. A mother can’t help but be proud. It’s perfectly shaped, all the skin is there, and it even tastes like a cucumber. And the tomatoes are almost ripe…with more cucumbers on the way…