New bloom

Love, love love this time of year.... even-though it doesn't last very long and warm days quickly become hot, sticky and humid.  spring still is my absolute favorite. especially because I love to think about ways to update and improve my home and yard. I love to walk into Lowes, Home Depot or any plant nursery and see all the spring annuals blooming away, I feel like that itself is medicine for my soul. I remember every spring my mother would buy a bunch of spring annuals for her home and I would help her plant them around her trees or near her mailbox, I remember the excitement and joy I felt when seeing her small garden transform.

I still feel the exact same way today times ONE HUNDRED!!!- maybe because I have my own home, and  know its true potential, or maybe because, I want to create those exact memories with Tealyn and have her remember our planting days.

 Right now shes still too young to know about annuals or perennials, but I know there is a little sense of wonder when she asks me if she can get her toes in the dirt and use the digger as she calls it to move dirt from one spot to another or hold the the water hose all on her own.  It makes me really happy that she is interested and is paying close attention to me as, I care for my plants.

She fills my heart with joy when she happily announces that there is a new bloom .

It truly is those little things.