Bloom Where You're Planted!

Mother's Day has passed, but the flowers linger on. I got these beauties from my sweet husband:




These were brought to me by my home teachers:




But most importantly, this corsage appeared in my refrigerator on Saturday night - just in time to be worn to church on Sunday morning.





When I was a child, the girls in our family (OK there was just my Mom and me) wore a corsage every Mother's Day to honor our mothers. The flower was white if your mother had passed away and pink if she was still living. {I used to always tease that I should wear a RED flower, because my Mother had more life in her than most folks.)

This is one of the many traditions that I've carried over into my own family. We have four darling daughters, so there were flowers galore in our home. For a number of years Nantie Meg made the corsages. But then she went off to college (The nerve of some kids!) and to my surprise and delight, Papa took over. (He buys the corsages instead of making them.) I just wanted to mention that I am so grateful to have a husband who supports my dreams, schemes and even my family's traditions!

On a related note; "manchild" sent an electronic "20 questions" game for Mothers' Day.





It's fun and silly and kind of incredible that a tiny little hand held device could hold sooo much data. Thinking I would stump the computer on this one for sure, the object I thought of was: "husband". The answer it came up with, was: "soul mate". Smart little Goober, eh?