the little chive and mint plants that could

This is a story of a little garlic chive and sweet mint plants that refuse to die. The chives I grew from seed 2 years ago. It did pretty well for the 1st year. Well something happened over that winter and it somehow got shoved into a corner in my kitchen. Well with that said it did not get watered or sun until I found it in march when I was getting my seeds started for spring. I felt so bad that I watered it right away and stuck it in my one sunny window. Well this little plant sprung back to life and greeted me with lovely green spiky leaves after 2 days. I was shocked! Well that summer it lived outside and grew and had lovely flowers that I left so I could collect the seeds so I could grow more garlic chives. As fall came I moved it back inside and gave it a trim and kept it by my one sunny window. Well it gets really dry here during the winter in ND so I tried to keep up on watering it but I slowly would forget and it only would get watered once a week then once every 2 weeks. The tops of the leaves slowly started turning brown so I finally started watering it ever few days and it started to grow again. Well in march of this year I went to visit family which turned into a month long vacation since there were snow storms every weekend my boyfriend was planning to come and get me (we share a car). So in his care he completely forgot to water any of my plants so when I got home I was sad to see my little chive plant all dried up and dead, but I hoped that if I started to water it again it would come back and boy was I right! The mint on the other hand was a garden center buy and it was very temperamental last summer. It seemed like ever other day it was threatening to end its little planty life. One day it would be all lovely and green and the next be half brown and crumbling to the touch. I'd move it in and out of the sun but it just didn't like me. I was tempted to just chuck it out in the fall but I just couldn't so I brought it in over the winter just like the chives. Well the mint really hated being inside and has been dead up until Feb when we started getting a bit more sun in my one sunny window. And poof! Green and lovely! I can't wait to move them both outside! And I think this year they will both be planted in the herb garden! Look at how pretty they are!