Reagan's Flowers

Our flower bed along our front walk is long and narrow and normally holds a few flowers, but if we plant too many, they hang over on the sidewalk and make it difficult to get to the front door.  Marci and I normally choose some small colorful flowers and by the end of summer they fill the flower bed.

Reagan brought home a packet of flowers as a Mother's Day gift from preschool and immediately started pestering us to plant her flowers.  We kept telling her we would get to it, but life got in the way and every day would pass without us planting and with her still asking.  This went on for a few days and then Reagan stopped asking and we forgot about the flowers.

Reagan didn't forget though and started to water the seeds she had "planted", or rather had dropped on the mulch.  She faithfully watered the spot with her water bottle and told us every day that she was waiting for her flowers to grow.

We were so excited when her flowers sprouted and we could see the pure joy in her eyes as she watched her flowers grow.  She had dropped the entire packet in one spot, and as you can see, they just took off.  Needless to say, they were our favorite flowers for the year and everytime we walked up the front steps we were reminded of Reagan's persistence and faith in planting and watering her flowers.