Micah has been on the down low for the past three days. Apparently, for three days straight, he has tried to get down to the Carlsbad flower mart to pick me up a bunch of my favorite flower for Mother’s Day. Each day he intended to go…something brutal came up, and he either didn’t go, or had to turn around. But today was the day. He headed down, and looked solely for one flower…and one flower only…
Butterfly Ranuculas.
He found them in the brightest and most insane yellow…so he bought me a whole box!
When I got them tonight, I was so stinking excited! I opened the box, and to my delight…found five bunches! Can you imagine what these can create?!? As I opened each bunch’s plastic wrap…I noticed that too many petals were of the stems. I have bought enough Carlsbad flowers to know that they should basically be buds…but buds they were not! i almost wanted Micah to leave the room, but he saw them, and was totally deflated. He had bought flowers that were too old. And the worst part….because of Mother’s Day…they were crazy expensive compared to their normal asking price.
Poor Micah!
No worries…that is the beauty of these flowers — even when they lose their petals, the bare bud is beautiful. And since each stem has tons of flowers — they were all camouflaged anyway.
The great news — regardless of their possible two days of life from this point forward — they are MAGNIFICENT!
They will always be at the top of my list as a perfect Mother’s Day centerpiece.
I’m just not so sure that Micah will still be buying these after this averted disaster!
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