>-Is sometimes greater when you give them away.
The roses I bought Monday evening looked so glorious on Tuesday afternoon when I came home from work that I decided it was a waste to let them stay in my flat where I will hardly spend any time this week, so as I was about to leave to go for dinner at my mother-in-law’s I spontaneously decided to wrap them up and bring them for her.
How’s that for being a good son-in-law? Not only – voluntarily – having dinner alone with my mother-in-law, but also bringing her flowers. Not that I would have done that if I didn’t like her; I’m fortunate enough to have a good relationship with her, and she does seem to enjoy it when I come around, and she definitely enjoys it when I bring her flowers.
She still has a couple of red dogwood branches/twigs in a vase; I brought them for her from the garden in early December, and while the red branches looked wonderfully festive in December they now have a decidedly springtime flavour, as they’re now sporting fresh green leaves and even flowers.
Next time I go up to the garden I should definitely bring back some forsythia branches to force for her.
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