Oh Diana, what a beautiful poem, and it is SO appropriate to my life right now.
Forgive me if I don’t spell everything in this post right, because I am moved by those words, very tired, and facing things in my life that relate to this.
I am just now getting on the computer tonight, I have had a BIG day, but a rewarding one. As far as I am concerned, LIFE is rewarding, and has always been, for me, including the challenging times.
I started my day driving to my Mom’s house, and taking her to pick out flowers for a special arrangement I am making her for Mother’s Day. I am also going to cook her a huge dinner, two of her favorite pies, and spent most of the evening (after her four hour foray into the Dollar Store and grocery store, her life) building the most magnifient hanging pot one can imagine.
I have dirt two inches thick under my fingernails as I type this.
I had been to the Dollar Store a few weeks ago, and found a flower pot that is a huge CONE ($7). Yes, a huge cone, one of the those metal planters with moss inside.
I made myself a hanging pot weeks ago with that cone, cutting holes in the moss at points, placing hanging petunias (striped red ones, maching colors) and some mounding plants with tiny white flowers, and even a mandevelia (sp) at the top.
Mom coveted my beautiful cone flower. So today I made two more, drove to the next county to get the right combination of plants. My Mama will be the Belle of the Ball in her neighborhood when her elderly neighbors see this arrangement.
I have an aunt, my Mom’s sister, who is also elderly (in her late 70s, with bad health), and the aunt has one very spoiled son. He hasn’t spoken to his Mom and Dad for 15 years (over greed, money issues), is a BRAT, and he has two kids. My aunt won’t get a card, phone call, anything for Mother’s Day.
So I made one of these arrangements for her. She WILL get a Mother’s Day present from me, was a wonderful, supporting person in my life when I was young and needed someone.
Well, when I was at the greenhouse today (a county away) where I bought most of my plants for my “cone” arrangements, I noticed they had a cone planter like mine (cheaper, smaller). They had set a hanging flower pot in it with two color mixtures.
They were selling these for $25.
I have about $10 apiece invested in mine. And I put alot into mine. I cut holes all along the cone, and coordinated the colors, mounding, hanging flowers.
I am so proud of mine, and proud of the women who influenced my life, like my beloved Mother and Aunt.
Sounds like you both had great gardening days! I didn’t accomplish what you two have, but I did get out in the veg garden for a bit. Managed a little bit of hoeing and weeding before the bugs got too bad.
Girlangler—so sorry about your cuz, but at least your aunt has you! :) Sounds like your mom and your aunt are both going to have wonderful Mother’s Days! I love my mom, but we’re not close, not like my daughter and I are. Lot of history, on both sides. She’s gone to my baby sister’s for Mother’s Day. i hope they have a great time. Mom and I just clash too bad, and I would rather avoid a confrontation than fight.
My boss’ mom is in the last stages of dementia—not sure what the dif between that and alzheimer’s is, but I wouldn’t wish either one of them on my worst enemy. I love her like she was my grandma, and it’s so hard to watch her going downhill.
The last few weeks have been really bad, and it’s hard on everyone but harder on us than her.
On a much lighter note—#2 son asked me yest if he could prune a shrub that was in the way while he was trying to cook on the grill. Dummy me—I said yes. His idea of pruning and my idea are vastly different. Needless to say, I now have a banana shrub six feet tall that was perfectly shaped, “pruned” back to the trunk—on one side. Gritting teeth—he’s 18—crossing my fingers and hoping he moves out before I commit mayhem!
Y’all have a great mother’s day!