Why grow a pumpkin in the winter?

Last October Leslee and I were cleaning out her pumpkin to get ready to carve a cool face on it when we noticed something that we hadn't seen before. We found a pumpkin seed that was already starting to grow. We thought it would be cool if we took this seed and actually grew a pumpkin inside this winter. Would it really grow inside? If it did, when would the pumpkin be full grown? Hmmm... It's strange, but Leslee and I have been growing our pumpkin inside and it actually is blooming and stuff. We keep hoping for spring to come soon so we can transfer it outside so it doesn't die due to lack of soil. When the flowers bloom it only does so for a day or so and then it's gone. So when the next flower was blooming I had take picture of it since I missed the last one thinking it would last longer than it did. It reminds me of the Bible verse that says "All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever." It makes me want to make sure that I'm doing things in my life that will last! Most things don't last long so we need to build our lives around what God says we need to do in His word!