How embarrassing. My post yesterday wrongly identified my newly budding plant as a lilac, when it is, in fact, lavender. Thanks to Audrey — a real gardener with a real gardening blog — for gently pointing out the error.

Fortunately, a woman who admits to cleaning the sink with her daughter’s dirty shirts, drying dishes with her own snot-covered blouse, and screaming at the sight of an earthworm can’t spend much time being embarrassed over, well, anything. This is, after all, a blog about how much of a domestic goddess I am not. So hey, I stand behind my mistake. I’m not ashamed. I’m here to represent the inept.

And I do it extremely thoroughly.