Happy Mother's Day

Last Wednesday Teri headed off to Woman's Conference with several sisters from our ward. Following the conference she stayed in Utah with her daughter Traci. I, having to go to work and take care of our yard with its very rapid growth of grass and weeds, stayed home. She finally came home after what seemed like a very long time; the day before Mother's Day. It is difficult to express how much I missed her. Every phone call or text message back and forth just made me miss her all the more and I longed for her return.


I decided to go buy her a bouquet of flowers for Mother's Day so went to a florist in Longview and got this beautiful bouquet and made the card shown in the picture. After getting the flowers I decided they simply did not convey the depth of my love for her so I headed off to Safeway to get another bouquet or two. While at Safeway I also bought a few Macy's gift cards to go with the flowers.



Things were going great but I still felt that Teri deserved a better expression of my love so I headed to Clatskanie to see what I might find. The Clatskanie Safeway was as usual a huge disappointment so I stopped at a little garden place, found and bought this arrangement.










Later that day after having had fun gathering flowers and doing yard work I headed off to Lake Oswego to get Sebastian to come spend the evening and next day with me. While visiting I decided I had to add two more bouquets so I could hide the last remaining gift cards under. We drove back to Longview where we found two more bouquets.

It was fun placing the flowers around the house. I almost said hiding the flowers around the house but I really wasn't hiding them. However they may as well have been hidden because Teri needed prompting to find them. Not to fault her in that though because she had no expectation of having any flowers let alone so many.

Coming home from the airport Teri and I drove into our drive, I began to take things in the house while Teri got mail and got our dog who had just run over to play with the neighbor dog. Teri came in with the dog and began to go through mail at the counter where the first bouquet of flowers stood. She did not notice them. I hung around waiting for her to notice and she asked me what I was doing so I went out to bring in the luggage. I came back in and she had not yet noticed them so I asked if she wanted me to go get her purse that held her regular glasses. She was wearing her prescription sun glasses. So I went back out to the truck to get the purse. She changed glasses and at that point saw the flowers sitting by the mail she had put on the counter. She was so excited to see that she had been given flowers. Then she noticed the tulips in the kitchen window and was very amazed that she had two bouquets. All was well when she turned and saw the bouquet with her card on the dining table. She was so amazed and even more excited to find a Macy's gift card under each one. She opened the card and expressed her appreciation and asked if there were more flowers. She actually said, "There had better not be any more flowers, are there?" I lied.




She then went upstairs to the bedroom to begin unpacking from her trip and saw the arrangement that I had placed on the bathroom counter. She loved that one and exclaimed that I had lied. She was a happy woman for sure and then just as she was about to leave the upstairs she noticed yet another flower, an orchid on her bedside table.





All was well and she again told me that there had better not be any more. We went downstairs and she decided to watch a little TV to relax and on going into the family room she saw these two bouquets above the TV and was again amazed and excited. She came back to give me a hug and kiss when she found this single rose on one or our TV speakers.
































She decided to call Traci and exclaim to her what she had come home to and told Traci that she would have me take pictures of the flowers to send out. So I told Teri I would do so and I took pictures of all the flowers that Teri new about plus two more that she had not noticed. Now these two bouquets were in the living room where, when I first brought luggage in and placed them on the floor for her to get things out not three feet from the large orchid. So I took the pictures and brought them to her where she was sitting on the couch in the family room and asked if she would like to see the pictures of the flowers. She began viewing the pictures and came across two bouquets that she had not yet seen. She saw that the scene was of the living room so got up and ran to the living room to find the last two bouquets and gift cards. It is so much fun to spoil the one you love and I am so glad that is Teri.