The rest of the story...

Last night I posted "Roses & Lilies" hoping for more than one response and one e-mail, but c'est la vie internet.

Here's the deal.

Guesses:

Birthday & Anniversary? No.

2nd Baby: Nooooo.

My husband has a serious car affliction. He loves cars so much that we have to park ours 6 miles from the entrances to restaurants and shopping malls 'lest anyone breathe on it the wrong way. Love you, honey!

Tim has asked me to take off a weekend from work this Spring so that he could attend a car show and then a few weeks ago he saw me writing in work for the following weekend and he gave me a "look". A "Please don't work that day, I kinda already made plans." look. As luck would have it there was a car show that weekend that he'd like to go to even more so than the one the weekend before and couldn't I please bail on the work. He even asked about it again last Saturday.

That same Saturday my colleage was trying to figure out a way to find a sub on the "first" car show weekend. Soooo, to make everyone's weekends I agreed to work her shift on the weekend I had taken off if she could work the next alone with an intern. And, voila both parties are happy.

Tim and his car dudes are so happy that Tim bought me the roses and his car dudes bought me the irises.

I kid you not.

Flowers from men I have never met.

Heh.

Roses and Lillies

Can you guess why I received not one but two bouquets of flowers yesterday??

(Lizzy, no guessing since you know the answer!)

Flowers

I'm not sure what kind of flowers these are, but the house I lived in when I was small had a tree that bloomed these same blossoms. As Liam and I were walking around the neighborhood the other day I noticed this tree and began to wax poetic in my mind about times past.

Liam seemed to be as enchanted with them in person as I was in my mind. In my mind they reminded me of a time when I was happy with my world. (I guess an elementary student doesn't have too much to be upset about.) But after we moved, and my parents divorced I spent nearly every moment NOT being present in life...always wishing I was somewhere else. Imagining myself someplace else until Liam came along. Going to all his activities has finally grounded me here in Baltimore. He has allowed me to be comfortable having roots in a place. He has allowed me to connect to the people and places here in a way that I haven't been able to do in a long time.

And, then he reminded me that everything has the possibility to be something else, something cooler. Like, say if you put said flower into your busy ball popper you can make snow indoors.