{"id":7237,"date":"2010-05-05T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/?p=7237"},"modified":"2010-05-05T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T01:30:09","slug":"my-first-mothers-day-2010-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/my-first-mothers-day-2010-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Mother&#8217;s Day 2010 Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>When I picked Michael up from school today, he proudly handed me this:<br>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mdgift10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mdgift10-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mdgift10\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7238\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/center>\n<p>His little face was beaming with pride.  \u201cIt\u2019s for Mother\u2019s Day\u201d he explained.  After I reassured him that I loved the gift, I asked him how he paid for it.  (I hadn\u2019t give him any money for the school\u2019s plant sale yet.)  He said that he didn\u2019t know\/maybe my husband had given him the money.  I was pleasantly surprised that Reggie and Michael had been able to buy the flowers without me knowing about it. <\/p>\n<p>Michael has been so protective of that plant\/flower.  He made sure that I placed it right next to me on the bench while he played at the playground after school.  Then, on our walk home, he held it on top of the stroller as I pushed Sean \u201cto make sure that it didn\u2019t fall\u201d.  Then, we were at home, he took it and put it on the windowsill in my room.  After asking for water, he then gave the flower \u201cjust a little\u201d water.  It was just so sweet to see how attentive and careful he was about his little gift for me.  My heart just melts!<\/p>\n<p>Later, I learned that my husband had <strong>not<\/strong> given Michael any money for the flower.  We owe someone money. Oh, well.  In any event, I love my little gift, because it came from Michael\u2019s heart.  Now I just hope that I don\u2019t kill the Allyson Heather\/Cuphea hyssopifolia before the little purple flowers bloom! (I have an awful track record with live plants and flowers\u2026)<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I picked Michael up from school today, he proudly handed me this: His little face was beaming with pride. \u201cIt\u2019s for Mother\u2019s Day\u201d he explained. 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