I usually don't have pictures of myself here on my blog but my husband was kind enough to take a picture of our daughter with me after we had spent an afternoon picking out flowers at the local gardening store. The above picture was the was result that had been inspired by a friend and coworker of mine who had given me this awesome wrought iron planter. Maggie was so excited and she had a bunch of ideas about what kind of flowers she wanted to plant. She had spent an afternoon looking through a gardening book that we had sitting in our bookshelf gathering dust, literally. It was so fun to watch her meander through the aisles at the store and decide what she thought would "go together". She was seriously inspired by what she had seen in the gardening book. So cute!
While we were at the store she encouraged me to buy a lavender plant of my very own. Whenever I see a lavender plant I always have to stop and smell it, touch the leaves and go on and on about how good it smells especially when it is in full bloom. So I think she thought I should have my very own lavender plant goodness right here at home! I followed her advice and we now have a lavender plant! Honestly, I hope I don't kill it (she would be so disappointed).
She could barely contain her excitement as we drove home. Maggie was chattering on and on about how she thought the flowers would look when we were done planting them. This day will be added to memory bank of precious times spent with my children. I highly recommend spending some quality one on one time with your kids doing something that brings them such joy and satisfaction. Their joy can be contagious!
Maggie dutifully waters the plants every day and I have taught her about "deadheading" and for those of you who don't know what that is, no, it has nothing to do with the Grateful Dead! She gave me the strangest look when I told her what we were going to do. I taught her how to identify the blooms that needed to picked off in order to help the plant convert more of its energy in to growing new blooms. She looks forward to "deadheading" now!
We had a fantastic afternoon spent together gardening. I hope it is something that we can continue to do together; that is until she is a teenager and thinks of something better to do. Ha! I will enjoy these precious moments together while I can!
