me: "Well, I guess I better get dressed!"
her: "Love you to the moon and back!"
me: "It's here! Wow! Speechless."
her: "Yay!!! Dinner and flowers."
me: "Thank you, dear. You know i am in tears now. Love you so much."
her: "Awww. Don't cry."
me: "Tears of happy, darling girl, tears of pure happy. I don't think i have ever been given such a delivery. You done GOOD."
her: "Good. Glad you enjoyed it."
me: "I know! What a birthday treat! You're the best!"
It had been 10:04 this morning when my first niece sent that first text.
Thirteen minutes later, after the driver made the touchless delivery and saw me take the gift inside, the car had pulled off.
I had not even had coffee yet and was flabbergasted and in tears.
Wow.
Christina Ann had given me dinner and flowers via special delivery.
Wow.
And such a huge bunch of flowers it was!
Wow.
And there was a hot roast chicken and a mess of green beans -
and a package of one-step Idahoan mashed potatoes!
Wow.
And ice cream!!!
Good googly moogly, there was ice cream!
She well knows how much I love ice cream!
And she gave me two types!
Wow.
The Breyers vanilla and the Talenti sorbetto of Roman Raspberry!!!
Nice for it to have that Italian touch and I do love the raspeberries!
Wow.
She really loves me...
and gets me...
i am so very blessed.
Wow.
my very own creation, the pepperoni omelet pizza!
The unicorn coffee mug - the unchipped one, for a change - and those lovely flowers shared the sunroom table.
What a beautiful setting to begin my next new year!
Hey, you know I did!
I 'sampled' the ice cream, too - both flavors, thankyouverymuch.
I made sure not to get any of those goodies on this Hawai'ian shirt while I was at it.
I love the ocean, so this reminder of Mother Pat was perfect garb to start my birthday.
(smile!)
I then took on the task at hand: finding vases for all those flowers!
Honestly, it has been years since I've had fresh flowers - what a treat!
I found three vases scattered about and cleaned them.
Now, to arrange the huge mass into smaller bouquets!
What a calming, creative task!
I had forgotten how much I love arranging blooms and blossoms!
A spray of greenery made it ready to grace my bedside table - beautiful and so delicately scented!
The stem of fringed mums, with light purple uppers, greenish centers, and darker purple under-petals, centered and held the whole arrangement.
Those will greet me each morn for breakfast!
The huge pale green mum, another stem of fringed purple mums, two sprays of tiny cream-laden lilies, a bunch of star-shaped flowerlets, and, my favorite, a branch with cascading, paper-thin, pink-tinged blossoms that smell divine!
The creation went to brighten the corner of the living room, beside "Dance At Bougival".
I especially like that last one -
flowers from Christina,
arranged by me,
beside Mama's piece of art...
the three of us represented together by coincidence.
On my birthday62.
Wow...
i am so blessed.
i thank You, God.
1 comment:
Lest one has the idea that the ex was the first to wish me happy birthday, he was not!
Mi amiga Barbara Boo had sprung that on me just after midnight that morning!
And, lest you think the ex was the only one who sang "happy birthday" to me, he was not!
Christina had done so, sotto voce at work, and texted the recording to me!!! I still have it on my phone!
I also still have the recordings of the two attempts she made to have Miyah sing the tune to me!!!
How super cool to have both of their voices!
I kept the one of Jeff singing it, too, in my "saved phone messages" folder.
Good thing I was still sleeping and missed his call!
Love those little miracles - I mean, coincidences!
i thank You, God!
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