you always bring me flowers

The first flowers from our children are dandelions clutched so hard in their pudgy paws that the stems ooze yellow.

dandelion days

Mommy we picked you some beautiful flowers

And they are the most beautiful  weeds flowers you have ever seen.

And then a few years later they are out with their dad and convince him that the red carnations with white tips are the right flower for you.

Mommy we bought you the most beautiful flowers we could find.

And they are so ugly you can’t believe it. But you love them so much.

And then one day, in what seems like just a short time later, they have great taste and the initiative to send you flowers on your birthday and they are so beautiful and so you and they are delivered with a note that makes the shop owner tear up on your doorstep.

flowers from my girls

And they touch you the way those first dandelions did.

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