Tuesday 23 March 2010

The meaning of flowers



For so many years a bunch of primroses would remind me of Mothering Sunday: lining up with all the other Brownies in church to have our bunch of primroses blessed before giving them to our mothers. Now, when I see the first tiny palest yellow buds in the garden, they always bring to mind this most precious of moments:



the minute my parents brought our older two boys back home to meet their new brother three years ago today. The boys gave me two lovingly gathered posies - more precious by far than all the bouquets of exotic flowers we received in the following days.

Happy Birthday, lovely Space Ranger. 3 today!


8 comments:

  1. Happy birthday from one monkey to another. My not so little man was 4 today. It only seems like yesterday he was born!
    Hope your space ranger had as good a birthday as mine did :)

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  2. How lovely!

    I've stationed some outside our front door to cheer everyone up (still a bit wintery here...)

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  3. Just looked up 'primrose' in my 'the language of flowers book' that used to be gran's. Primrose means 'early youth', so perhaps that is fitting...
    rosie (niece) xxx

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  4. how lovely!! Happy birthday to your wee man! x

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  5. Aaahh! A belated happy birthday! Someone else who loves Buzz Lightyear... can't wait for no.3!

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  6. To infinity and beyond! Your little lad, or should I say Buzz, looks wonderful. Hope he had a great day.

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  7. love the primrose story, made me smile too! Stella x

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