Full

My beloved got me a card with a picture of a deserted atoll in the South Pacific.   My daughter got a card which said we looked alike (except of course we don't, she said).  Life in this family is full in ways I can't quite describe.  I don't believe it could be more full than this.  I am content.

Today is full of

Just right things

Perfect crepes for brunch

With my daughter

And beloved,

After a worship service

With bigs and smalls,

Young and old.

No Mother's Day speeches

And now naps

All the way around.

Mother*s Day

I hope for my children the blessing of children... small, then grown.

Two amazing children

Not children

Anymore

But now

Amazing young adults.

No mother

Could ask for more.

Very simply

No mother

Could ask for

Any more.

Blessings pour.

Sweet William

Spring lore in these parts says that plants are safe from frost if planted after Mother*s Day.  No one told the Sweet William.

It is Mother*s Day,

Finally safe to plant flowering things.

The Sweet William overwintered here.

It is already in fuller blossom

Than it achieved last year.

My husband wanted to know

When I had time to plant.

I didn*t.

The pots are full of Sweet William.

I don*t remember such a range

Of color

Last year.

I must have bought the variety pack,

Or perhaps they thought to try on

Different colors

This year.

No one told the Sweet William

It wasn*t safe yet,

So they flowered anyway.